Should Secret Voting Be Mandatory?
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 obtai…
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Weitere Autoren: Orr, Susan
- ISBN: 978-1-5095-3817-1
- EAN: 9781509538171
- Produktnummer: 35200156
- Verlag: Wiley
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 140 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 150 KB
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James Johnson is Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester.Susan Orr is Associate Professor of Political Science at the College of Brockport, State University of New York.
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