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Technology and the Voting Process


Appendix E: Literature Survey

1. Elections Canada and federal government

  1. Elections Canada; Report of the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada on the 36th General Election; August 1997.
  2. Elections Canada; Performance Report for the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer. Improved Reporting to Parliament – Pilot Document; For the period ending March 31, 1997.
  3. Elections Canada; The Register of Electors Project: A Report on Research and Feasibility; March 1996.
  4. Elections Canada; Towards the 35th General Election – Report of the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada; January 1994.
  5. Elections Canada; The 1992 Federal Referendum: A Challenge Met – Report of the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada; January 1994.
  6. Office of the Chief Electoral Officer; 1997-98 Estimates. Part III Expenditure Plan.
  7. Office of the Chief Electoral Officer; 1996-97 Estimates. Part III Expenditure Plan.
  8. Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat; Blueprint for Renewing Government Services Using Information Technology; 1994.

2. Electronic democracy

  1. Barney, Darin David; Pushbutton Populism: The Reform Party and the Real World of Teledemocracy; presented to the 67th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal Quebec, June 6, 1995.
  2. Carty, R.K; "Televoting for Canadians: Lessons from Party Leadership Contests"; Canadian Parliamentary Review; Autumn 1996, pp. 17-20.
  3. City of North York; Memo to File: North York Telephone Referendum – Megacity; April 15, 1997.
  4. The House of Commons of Canada; Bill C-274: An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act (electronic voting); First Session, Thirty-sixth Parliament, 46 Elizabeth II, 1997.
  5. MacIvor, Heather; "Some Reflections on Technology and Politics"; Canadian Parliamentary Review; Winter 1996/1997; pp. 14-19.
  6. Preyra, Leonard.; "The 1992 Nova Scotia Liberal Leadership Convention"; Canadian Parliamentary Review; Winter 1993-94; pp. 2-11.
  7. Scholtz, Christa S; Electronic Voting: Preliminary Research and Recommendations; July 23, 1997.
  8. Stewart, David K. and Keith Archer; Electronic Fiasco? An Examination of the 1994 Liberal Leadership Selection in Alberta; prepared for presentation at the 1996 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario; June 2-4, 1996.
  9. Stewart, Ian, Adamson, Agar and Bruce Beaton; Pressing the Right Buttons: The Nova Scotia Liberals and Tele-Democracy; in Stewart, Ian; Roasting Chesnuts: The Mythology of Maritime Political Culture; UBC Press, Vancouver; 1994.
  10. Tapscott, Don; "The Digital Media and the Reinvention of Government"; Canadian Public Administration, Volume 40, Number 2; Summer; pp. 328-345.

3. Representative democracy and the electoral process

  1. Atkinson, Michael M.; "What Kind of Democracy do Canadians Want?"; Canadian Journal of Political Science, Volume 27, Number 4, December 1994; pp. 717-745.
  2. Blais, Andre and Elisabeth Gidengil; Making Representative Democracy Work – The Views of Canadians, Volume 17 of the Research Studies – Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing; Dundurn Press, Toronto and Oxford; 1991.
  3. Clarke, Harold D. et al; Absent Mandate: Canadian Electoral Politics in an Era of Restructuring – third edition; Gage Educational Publishing Company, Toronto, 1996.
  4. Clarke, Harold D. and Allan Kornberg; "Evaluations and Evolution: Public Attitudes toward Canada's Federal Political Parties, 1965-1991"; Canadian Journal of Political Science, Volume 26, Number 2, June 1993; pp. 287-311.
  5. Clarke, Harold D. et al; "The Contest Nobody Won: the 1997 Canadian Federal Election and the National Party System"; 1998.
  6. Gidengil, Elisabeth; "Canada Votes: A Quarter Century of Canadian National Election Studies"; Canadian Journal of Political Science, Volume 25, Number 2, June 1992; pp. 219-248.
  7. Graham, Katherine A. and Susan D. Phillips; "Citizen Engagement: Beyond the Customer Revolution"; Canadian Public Administration, Volume 40, Number 2, Summer; pp. 254-273.
  8. Hiebert, Janet ed; Political Ethics – A Canadian Perspective, Volume 12 of the Research Studies – Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing; Dundurn Press, Toronto and Oxford; 1991.
  9. Jackman, Robert W. and Ross A. Miller; "Voter Turnout in the Industrial Democracies during the 1980s"; Comparative Political Studies, Volume 27, Number 4, January 1995; pp. 467-492.
  10. Milner, Henry; "Electoral Systems, Integrated Institutions and Turnout in Local and National Elections: Canada in Comparative Perspective"; Canadian Journal of Political Science, Volume 30, Number 1, March 1997; pp. 89-106.
  11. Nevitte, Neil; The Decline of Deference: Canadian value change in cross-national perspective; Broadview Press; 1995.
  12. Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing; Reforming Electoral Democracy: Volume 1 Final Report; 1991./li>
  13. Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing; Reforming Electoral Democracy: Volume 2 Final Report; 1991.
  14. Zussman, David; "Do Citizens Trust Their Governments?"; Canadian Public Administration, Volume 40, Number 2, Summer; pp. 234-254.