Pille: There are two terms, which mean two different things: 1) e-democracy, which deals with online participation in any democratic process, i.e. formulation of petitions, sending feedback, etc. but also including the following: 2) e-voting, which is more likely what you're looking for - to support elections by using electronic voting facilities. BTW: There is an e-democracy/e-voting working group in Austria, dealing with the latter: http://www.e-voting.at/main.php?l=E Just recently, there also was the Eastern Europe E-Gov Day in Budapest. If you'd like to see the program: http://www.ocg.at/egov/eeegov04c.pdf Best, Laurent --- Mag. Laurent Straskraba Information Society Researcher / Information Society Representative at UN Youth & Student Association Austria post: Ontlstrasse 3, A - 4040 Linz, Austria / Europe mobile: +43.650.7711861 (GMT +1) e-mail: laurent@straskraba.net web: http://www.straskraba.net --- At 22:37 19.05.2004, you wrote:
Hi all,
I am entering to an unfamiliar territory and trying to compose a web page analysis list for elections related websites. So far I have read Pippa Norris books, and some stuff found in google searches. What is bothering me is that e-democracy seems to be dealing with participational issues in the web environment rather than how web supports traditional elections. But maybe I am unable to come up with right search terms or have understood notions of e-democracy wrong?
can someone point me to a book/article or even keywords what to look for? I am open to all kind of suggestions.
Gratefully, Pille Vengerfeldt PhD student from Estonia
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