Electronic voting provides accuracy and efficiency to the electoral processes. World democracies would benefit from a secure e-voting system not only to improve voter participation and trust but also to prevent electoral fraud. However, current e-voting systems are complex and have security weaknesses. In this paper, we describe a secure e-voting system for national and local elections (S-Vote)...

The right of persons with disabilities to vote is well-codified in international human rights law. Disability scholars, however, argue that are frequently denied the vote. What recurrent concepts used by disability scholars discuss this issue? From a content literature review, four main regularly authors elaborate on voting context disability: “political participation,” “barriers,” “electoral p...

Polarisation over cultural issues and the emergence of radical, often populist, challenger parties indicate a fundamental restructuring political conflict in Western Europe. The emerging divide crosscuts and, part, reshapes older cleavages. This special issue introduction highlights how transformation cleavage structures relates to dynamics polarisation participation. contributions innovate two...

This paper explores how party-specific contextual factors explain variations in membership levels. Based on a subset of MAPP data that includes 2898 yearly points for 262 parties 24 countries over period from 1990 to 2014, it examines three sets explanations: the lifecycle model (party age), bandwagon (electoral performances and governemental participation), competition (effective number partie...

Many scholars argue that the political regime in contemporary Russia exemplifies the global phenomenon of electoral authoritarianism. But, what are the major features of such a regime in the case of Russia? Why and how did it proceed through a life cycle of emergence, development, and decay? And how might it evolve in the foreseeable future? This article seeks answers to these questions. B the ...