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Swinkels, Joris (2023)

Digital voting, unsafe or unwanted? Qualitative study of digital voting in the Netherlands, Belgium and Estonia

Master thesis | Public Administration (MSc)

In every democratic country in the world, elections are a very common occurrence. In modern times, the electoral systems change too, resulting in the emergence of electronic voting. This research distinguishes voting on voting machines and Internet voting and compares the cases of the Netherlands, Belgium and Estonia to understand the most important factors to drive implementation of digital voting initiatives. The technological aspects of this have been researched enough by other authors, so this research focusses on the success factors generated by the Enacting Electronic Government Success (EEGS) framework. To place it in a historical perspective, the Historical Institutionalist view is added. The unique contribution of this research is to derive success factors of digital voting from the perspective of frameworks closely related to e-Governance, that have not yet researched digital voting.

E-voting, Digital voting, Election, Trust, Electoral Systems

Author

Swinkels, Joris

Faculty

Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

Specialisation

Economics & Governance

Supervisors

Villodre de Costa, J.

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en