From Open Secrets to Secret Voting - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Open Secrets to Secret Voting write by Isabela Mares. This book was released on 2015-06-17. From Open Secrets to Secret Voting available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The expansion of suffrage and the introduction of elections are momentous political changes that represent only the first steps in the process of democratization. In the absence of institutions that protect the electoral autonomy of voters against a range of actors who seek to influence voting decisions, political rights can be just hollow promises. This book examines the adoption of electoral reforms that protected the autonomy of voters during elections and sought to minimize undue electoral influences over decisions made at the ballot box. Empirically, it focuses on the adoption of reforms protecting electoral secrecy in Imperial Germany during the period between 1870 and 1912. Empirically, the book provides a micro-historical analysis of the democratization of electoral practices, by showing how changes in district level economic and political conditions contributed to the formation of an encompassing political coalition supporting the adoption of electoral reforms.
Should Secret Voting Be Mandatory?
Should Secret Voting Be Mandatory? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Should Secret Voting Be Mandatory? write by James Johnson. This book was released on 2020-11-10. Should Secret Voting Be Mandatory? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The secrecy of the ballot, a crucial basic element of representative democracy, is under threat. Attempts to make voting more convenient in the face of declining turnout – and the rise of the “ballot selfie” – are making it harder to guarantee secrecy. Leading scholars James Johnson and Susan Orr go back to basics to analyze the fundamental issues surrounding the secret ballot, showing how secrecy works to protect voters from coercion and bribery. They argue, however, that this protection was always incomplete: faced with effective ballot secrecy, powerful actors turned to manipulating turnout – buying presence or absence at the polls – to obtain their electoral goals. The authors proceed to show how making both voting and voting in secret mandatory would foreclose both undue influence and turnout manipulation. This would enhance freedom for voters by liberating them from coercion or bribery in their choice of both whether and how to vote. This thought-provoking and insightful text will be invaluable for students and scholars of democratic theory, elections and voting, and political behavior.
From Open Secrets to Secret Voting
From Open Secrets to Secret Voting - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Open Secrets to Secret Voting write by Isabela Mares. This book was released on 2015-06-17. From Open Secrets to Secret Voting available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents an account of the adoption of electoral reforms democratizing electoral practices in nineteenth century European countries.
Secrecy and Publicity in Votes and Debates
Secrecy and Publicity in Votes and Debates - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Secrecy and Publicity in Votes and Debates write by Jon Elster. This book was released on 2015-06-26. Secrecy and Publicity in Votes and Debates available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the spirit of Jeremy Bentham's Political Tactics, this volume offers the first comprehensive discussion of the effects of secrecy and publicity on debates and votes in committees and assemblies. The contributors - sociologists, political scientists, historians, and legal scholars - consider the micro-technology of voting (the devil is in the detail), the historical relations between the secret ballot and universal suffrage, the use and abolition of secret voting in parliamentary decisions, and the sometimes perverse effects of the drive for greater openness and transparency in public affairs. The authors also discuss the normative questions of secret versus public voting in national elections and of optimal mixes of secrecy and publicity, as well as the opportunities for strategic behavior created by different voting systems. Together with two previous volumes on Collective Wisdom (Cambrige, 2012) and Majority Decisions (Cambridge, 2014), the book sets a new standard for interdisciplinary work on collective decision-making.
Open-secret Voting
Open-secret Voting - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Open-secret Voting write by . This book was released on 2010. Open-secret Voting available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Abstract: Stock debates about transparency and secrecy usually assume that open voting and secret voting are mutually exclusive. But these positions present a false alternative; open and secret voting can be employed as complements in a larger decision-procedure. In what follows I will propose a hybrid or dual procedure of open-secret voting, and attempt to specify the conditions under which that procedure works well. I suggest that open-secret voting can best be justified as an institutional means of obtaining a second opinion from the voting group. A second opinion of this sort might produce informational benefits either for the members of the voting group itself, for outsideparties, or for both. (This is a companion paper to Adrian Vermeule, "Second Opinions" available on SSRN)---John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business web site.
