POLSCI 2F03 Lecture Notes - Electronic Health Record, E-Democracy, Democratic Deficit
11 Nov 2013
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Democratic flux: happening at the same time as technology" is proliferating everything that we"re doing in our daily lives. Impacting opportunities for information: changing opportunities for participation/building peers / building networks/citizen conversation/relationship with government (2-way engagement, citizen & government intermediaries (interest groups) Keep track of what is going on in society. Government instead of going to the citizens go straight to the interest groups. Conversation about internet voting cannot be in isolation. Internet voting is one part of the e-democracy picture. Information: online banking, electronic medical records, campaigns i. e obama 2008, social movements (egypt & twitter, local participations (i. e mcguinty petition) Social media impacting legislations: conventions (i. e blogger presence) Age: middle aged and older electors most likely to use it (45-54) Older electors using internet voting more often. Does internet voting positively affect voter turn out. Turn out is dependent on various factors; internet voting does not necessarily and solely affect turn out.
