Three Case Studies from Switzerland: Smartvote, Electronic Voting, and Political Communication
With the globalization of Internet use, the deployment of technology to improve democracy has rapidly gained worldwide attention. These case studies are organized around three specific examples within the Swiss context that map roughly onto three distinct stages of the democratic process: the pre-voting system (Smartvote); the voting stage itself (E-Voting); and the post-voting phase (Politicians' Personal Communication on the Internet).
authored by urs gasser, james thurman, jan gerlach, richard staeuber, internet and democracy, published on 31 mar 2009