전자투표(E-Voting) 거버넌스 = 스위스와 네델란드 사례를 중심으로

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

With the progress of Internet Communication Technology(hereafter ICT), discussions regarding completions and alternatives of democracy have been prevalent in the world. This illustrates that development of ICT is likely to be related with democracy and the effect varies with socio-political environment and status of each country. Thus, it is necessary that meaning of technology reconstructed socially should be analyzed rather than argue the direct relationship between technology and democracy. This article, therefore, explores different types of national governance for e-voting which is an important element and contains the process of institutionalization of each country. In particular, Swiss and Netherland will be dealt as important cases to explore the purpose. Based upon these cases, this paper draws implications elements of e-voting governance building and a factor of e-voting initiation. Swiss is highly developed in terms of local self-governing and the federal government has implemented e-voting project in accordance with cooperative system with each local government such as Canton, Commune. Netherland has flexible electoral system, and the federal government has implemented various pilot experiments on e-voting cooperated with local governments. Considering these cases, this paper emphasizes that contents and development process of democracy varies with each country, and the contents and development process are mediated by e-voting. This paper conclude that e-democracy contains various developmental paths of e-democracy and alternatives.