INTERNET VOTING AND DEMOCRACY
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w Zakładzie Psychologii i Socjologii Polityki Instytutu Nauk Politycznych
Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Publication date: 2020-01-25
Studia Politologiczne 2011;20
ABSTRACT
Internet voting prospects of development and its’ influence on representative
democracy is the aim of analysis in hereby paper. In preface main terms and
concepts of electronic voting used in the literature is ordered and defined. The first
part of the article consists of Internet voting experiments review by country and
evaluation of its effects. Analysis of arguments and expectations of remote Internet
voting zealots is the main theme of the second part of the article. Subsequently
the most important barriers for development of this way of voting is discussed on
technical, social and political areas. Article ends with considerations about future
of democracy in remote Internet voting context. Following types of possible longterm
scenarios are marked out: representative electronic democracy (representative
e-democracy), direct electronic democracy (direct e-democracy), electronic plebiscitary
democracy (plebiscitary e-democracy), electronic apathy (e-apathy) and electronic
totalitarianism (e-totalitarianism).