Is the changed relationship between voters and legislators due to the development of the Internet a boon for good decision-making – or a challenge?

Speaker
Nusrat Ghani, Professor Ignacio Cofone
Event date
Event time
17:00 - 18:45
Venue
St Antony's College
62 Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6JF
Venue details

Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre

Event type
Lectures and seminars
Event cost
Free
Disabled access?
Yes
Booking required
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Constitutions like the US’s were deliberately designed to slow down decision-making and put ‘grit in the system’ (and England’s did so organically). Tech can speed things up dramatically with real-time polling and electronic voting, and facilitates a huge increase in immediate voter-to-legislator contact. Is that a boon for good decision-making or a challenge? Are there implications for parties and parliaments?