2021
DOI: 10.1111/spsr.12422
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Democracy Beyond Secrecy: Assessing the Promises and Pitfalls of Collective Voting

Abstract: This paper assesses collective voting as a specific mode of democratic decision-making and compares it to secret voting. Under collective voting, voters gather in one place and decide by the show of hands. We theorise two potential advantages and two disadvantages of collective voting so defined. We then draw on original survey data from one of the largest polities practising collective voting, the citizen assembly of the Swiss canton of Glarus. We find that both the promises and pitfalls of non-secret voting … Show more

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“…While secret voting would free decision-makers from a sense of accountability, lifting possible hurdles to casting uninformed or prejudiced ballots, open voting would incentivize them to make decisions justified by reasons and favoring common interests (Setälä et al, 2010;Engelen and Nys, 2013;Vandamme, 2018). It could also enable voters to cast a ballot informed by others' decisionsfollowing, for instance, the voting behavior of trusted fellow-citizens in the open vote (Mueller et al, 2021) (an information not readily available to voters in popular votes). As these effects would apply to all present members, higher levels of agreement can be expected.…”
Section: Decision-rulementioning
confidence: 99%
“…While secret voting would free decision-makers from a sense of accountability, lifting possible hurdles to casting uninformed or prejudiced ballots, open voting would incentivize them to make decisions justified by reasons and favoring common interests (Setälä et al, 2010;Engelen and Nys, 2013;Vandamme, 2018). It could also enable voters to cast a ballot informed by others' decisionsfollowing, for instance, the voting behavior of trusted fellow-citizens in the open vote (Mueller et al, 2021) (an information not readily available to voters in popular votes). As these effects would apply to all present members, higher levels of agreement can be expected.…”
Section: Decision-rulementioning
confidence: 99%