Digital dilemmas: the unintended consequences of election technology
Digital dilemmas: the unintended consequences of election technology
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DOI：
10.1080/13510347.2018.1470165
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发表时间：
2018-01-01
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影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Willis, Justin
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作者：
Cheeseman, Nic;Lynch, Gabrielle;Willis, Justin
数字技术越来越多地用于世界各地的选举。有些人认为，在国家资源和能力有限的情况下，这些技术可以迅速实现更清洁、更可信的选举。这篇文章认为，这些技术的日益使用是由对技术的盲目崇拜而不是对其有效性的严格评估所驱动的;它们可能为腐败创造重大机会，（除其他外）削弱其潜在影响;它们带来重大的机会成本。事实上，正是因为新技术往往会转移人们对更传统战略的注意力，数字制衡的失败往往使选举过程比以前更容易受到操纵。这些观察结果并不是要作为反对选举数字化的宣言;除此之外，我们认为采用这些新方法的驱动力太强大了，无法抗拒。但分析提请注意，必须更仔细地评估这些技术的问题和好处，并需要更仔细地规划其部署。
Digital technologies are increasingly used in elections around the world. Where the resources and capacity of the state are limited, some have argued that such technologies make it possible to rapidly leapfrog to cleaner and more credible elections. This article argues that the growing use of these technologies has been driven by the fetishization of technology rather than by rigorous assessment of their effectiveness; that they may create significant opportunities for corruption that (among other things) vitiate their potential impact; and that they carry significant opportunity costs. Indeed, precisely because new technology tends to deflect attention away from more traditional strategies, the failure of digital checks and balances often renders an electoral process even more vulnerable to rigging than it was before. These observations are not intended as a manifesto against the digitization of elections; apart from anything else, we argue that the drivers of the adoption of these new methods are too powerful to resist. But the analysis draws attention to the importance of more careful assessments of the problems, as well as the benefits, of such technologies - and to the need for more careful planning in their deployment.