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Electronic participation is an emerging and growing research area that makes use of internet solutions to enhance citizens' participation in government processes in order to provide a fair and efficient society. This book examines recommender-system technologies and voting advice applications as tools to enable electronic citizen participation during election campaigns. Further, making use of fuzzy classification, it provides an evaluation framework for eParticipation. A dynamic voting advice application developed for the 2017 Ecuador national election serves as a real-world case study to introduce readers to the practical implementation and evaluation issues. The book concludes with a comprehensive analysis of the 2017 election project based on altmetrics, Google Analytics and statistics from the case study.

Internet in public administration. --- Information technology. --- Elections. --- IT in Business. --- Electoral Politics. --- Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet). --- Electoral politics --- Franchise --- Polls --- Political science --- Politics, Practical --- Plebiscite --- Political campaigns --- Representative government and representation --- IT (Information technology) --- Technology --- Telematics --- Information superhighway --- Knowledge management --- Business—Data processing. --- Application software. --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software

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The result of the UK referendum in June 2016 on membership of the European Union had immediate repercussions across the UK, the EU and internationally. As the dust begins to settle, attention is now naturally drawn to understanding why this momentous decision came about and how and when the UK will leave the EU. What are the options for the new legal settlements between the UK and the EU? What will happen to our current political landscape within the UK in the time up to and including its exit from the EU? What about legal and political life after Brexit? Within a series of short essays, Brexit Time explores and contextualises each stage of Brexit in turn: pre-referendum; the result; the process of withdrawal; rethinking EU relations; and post-Brexit. During a time of intense speculation and commentary, this book offers an indispensable guide to the key issues surrounding a historic event and its uncertain aftermath.

Referendum --- Ballot initiatives --- Ballot measures --- Initiative and referendum --- Initiatives, Ballot --- Propositions (Referendum) --- Referenda --- Referendums --- Democracy --- Elections --- Representative government and representation --- Direct democracy --- Plebiscite --- European Union --- E.U. --- Great Britain --- European Union countries --- EU countries --- Euroland --- Europe --- Politics and government --- Foreign relations

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The borders of Europe are gradually mutating into technological borders. Technologies used for this task, such as European databases and biometric systems, are increasingly making use of the bodies of migrants as a source of information, discriminating for or against them as citizens or aliens. These new technological borders have a severe effect on the privacy and bodily integrity of people. Migration policy in Europe runs the risk of becoming a test lab for these new technologies. This cutting-edge collection provides a variety of disciplinary perspectives analyzing political, legal, administrational, and technological issues. Offering different strategies of counter-surveillance to strengthen the position of migrants and citizens, the book unpicks the new tensions in Europe between states and citizens, and between politics, technology and human rights.

Technology and state --- Citizenship --- Minorities --- Civil rights --- European Union countries --- Emigration and immigration --- Government policy --- E-books --- Ethnic minorities --- Foreign population --- Minority groups --- Persons --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Discrimination --- Ethnic relations --- Majorities --- Plebiscite --- Race relations --- Segregation --- Government policy. --- Border security --- Technological innovations --- Europe --- Technology and state - European Union countries --- Citizenship - European Union countries --- Minorities - European Union countries --- Civil rights - European Union countries --- Border security - Technological innovations - Europe --- European Union countries - Emigration and immigration - Government policy --- Europe - Emigration and immigration --- Europe - Emigration and immigration - Government policy

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This book deals with 18 voting procedures used or proposed for use in elections resulting in the choice of a single winner. These procedures are evaluated in terms of their ability to avoid paradoxical outcomes. Together with a companion volume by the same authors, Monotonicity Failures Afflicting Procedures for Electing a Single Candidate, published by Springer in 2017, this book aims at giving a comprehensive overview of the most important advantages and disadvantages of procedures thereby assisting decision makers in the choice of a voting procedure that would best suit their purposes.

Voting --- Polls --- Social aspects. --- Democracy. --- Elections. --- Political philosophy. --- Economic theory. --- Welfare economics. --- Economics. --- Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice. --- Electoral Politics. --- Political Philosophy. --- Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods. --- Elections --- Politics, Practical --- Social choice --- Suffrage --- Political science --- Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy. --- Philosophy. --- Self-government --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- Political philosophy --- Electoral politics --- Franchise --- Plebiscite --- Political campaigns --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Social policy

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Could democracy do better? This book presents a vision on optimal democracies and a set of new rules to help achieve them. The monograph follows on the author’s successful book “Designing Democracy” from 2005 and further develops its ideas. While liberal democracies are the best systems of self-governance for societies, they rarely provoke great enthusiasm. Democracies have been known to fail in achieving efficient outcomes and fair distributions of wealth. Moreover, many citizens take the democratic system for granted, simply because they have yet to experience an alternative. This book argues that the potential offered by democracies has not yet been exhausted, and that optimal democracies are both the Utopia for societies and the aim that scientists should commit themselves to making a reality. Furthermore, the book suggests a number of insightful rules to improve the functioning of democracies. “We all know what to do, we just don’t know how to get re-elected after we have done it.” This famous quip by Jean-Claude Juncker perfectly encapsulates the challenge this book takes on: how to redesign our democratic institutions to overcome political short-termism and make our democracies more efficient. Several radical but highly relevant proposals are explored, ranging from long-term incentive contracts for politicians, prediction markets over the outcomes of the next election that could be useful for incentive purposes, minority voting, initiative group constitutions, and so on. All these highly innovative proposals are rigorously grounded in standard economic analysis. I highly recommend this book to anyone concerned about the state of our democracies and looking for constructive reforms. Patrick Bolton, Columbia University, USA In a time of reeling democracies, it is urgent to explore how to improve on the electoral system for the benefit of society. Hans Gersbach has developed a most innovative and thought-provoking research agenda at the intersection of political theory, social choice and mechanism design. He uncovers the potentially positive effects of political contracts between candidates and society, of new rules for agenda setting and of mechanisms compensating the minorities. Marc Fleurbaey, Princeton University, USA.

Political economy. --- Democracy. --- Economic theory. --- Welfare economics. --- Public finance. --- Law and economics. --- Economics. --- Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice. --- Public Economics. --- Political Economy. --- Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods. --- Law and Economics. --- Elections. --- Democracy --- Mathematical models. --- Self-government --- Electoral politics --- Franchise --- Polls --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Politics, Practical --- Plebiscite --- Political campaigns --- Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy. --- International Political Economy. --- Economics and jurisprudence --- Economics and law --- Jurisprudence and economics --- Economics --- Jurisprudence --- Cameralistics --- Public finance --- Currency question --- Economic policy --- Social policy --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- Public finances