Abstract:
The systematic literature review explores recent research trends in e-democracy, focusing on voter registration and verification in e-election procedures. The research seeks to reveal scholars' disciplinary affiliations and the philosophical assumptions underpinning study in the field. Scholars, however, have paid little attention to e-voter registration and verification in e-democracy. The study was driven by the question: what kinds of studies dominate the e-democracy literature? The SLR approach evaluated 41 publications from four databases on electronic voting, e-democracy, and Sub-Saharan Africa. The studies identified four distinct e-democracy themes related to electronic voter registration and verification. The findings show that political scientists and international relations specialists dominate the sector. Though the interpretivism stance dominated the e-democracy research domain, more research in e-voter registration and verification is required. We recommend boosting the number of IS-based scholars studying e-voter registration and verification, contributing IS-based insights to ongoing theorizing of this phenomenon.
Description:
Democracy has been defined as the government of the people, by the people, and for the people. This seemingly ageless definition of democracy opens up a critical view of what democracy is all about. Although one may argue that, the definition is not fully explicit, however, it provides grounds for scholars to see the totality of democracy in principle and practice. This is to say that it explicates the notion that democracy revolves around what people want, what they do to get what they want, and the extent the machinery of government allows them to participate in what they need to do to get what they want. Given this, democracy is a set of rules and values for managing conflict in an institutionalized way
