Internet Voting in Sub-national Elections: Policy Learning in Canada and Australia

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• 关键词：Internet voting ; Sub ; national elections ; Policy ; Canada ; Australia
• 刊名：Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：10141
• 期：1
• 页码：164-177
• 丛书名：Electronic Voting
• ISBN：978-3-319-52240-1
• 卷排序：10141

文摘

In advanced democracies, the expansion of internet voting in national elections appears to have stalled. New announcements by governments of online voting initiatives seem to be matched by announcements elsewhere that trials will not proceed, or that completed trials will not result in wider deployment. Debates between proponents and opponents of internet voting in advanced democracies now run along well-worn lines. The same examples are endlessly recycled. This apparent inertia at the national level masks the gradual increase in examples of deployment at the sub-national level. These sub-national cases provide a growing stock of evidence about more and less successful ways of managing transitions to voting by internet. This article draws upon advocacy coalition theory to analyse some of these sub-national developments, focusing on remote online voting in Australia and Canada.