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Is the changed relationship between voters and legislators due to the development of the Internet a boon for good decision-making - or a challenge?
Deliberative politics versus the Internet: is technology creating a democratic deficit?
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?
Date:
9 March 2026, 17:00
Venue:
Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre
Speakers:
Nusrat Ghani,
Professor Ignacio Cofone (University of Oxford)
Organising department:
St Antony's College
Organisers:
Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR),
St Antony's College
Organiser contact email address:
alumni.office@sant.ox.ac.uk
Part of:
St Antony's Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship
Booking required?:
Recommended
Booking url:
https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/research/visiting-parliamentary-fellowship/register-to-attend-8/
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Harold Li
