Democracy and New Technology

1. Assesses the impact of new technology on the democratic process, and asks whether new procedures make or could make our social choices more or less democratic. 2. Reports on the latest in hi-tech campaigning in the UK, Europe and the US, blending observation of the campaigns with analysis based on social choice theory. 3. One of the very few books to explain social choice theory in totally non-technical language and to explore what it means for democracy. 4. Gives an example of how to program a computer-counted election.