Secrecy and Publicity in Votes and Debates (Hardcover)

Introduction Jon Elster; 1. Public voting and political modernization: different views from the nineteenth century and new ideas to modernize voting procedures Hubertus Buchstein; 2. Semi-public voting at the Constituante Jon Elster and Arnaud le Pillouer; 3. The introduction of the vote by ballot in the election of the Syndics of the Republic of Geneva (1707) Raphael Barat; 4. Suffrage and voting secrecy in general elections Adam Przeworski; 5. Secret voting in the Italian Parliament Daniela Giannetti; 6. Open decision-making procedures and public legitimacy: an inventory of causal mechanisms Jenny de Fine Licht and Daniel Naurin; 7. How publicity creates opacity: what happens when EU ministers vote publicly Stephanie Novak; 8. Secret-public voting in FDA advisory committees Philippe Urfalino and Pascaline Costa; 9. Disclosed and undisclosed vote in Constitutional/Supreme Courts Pasquale Pasquino; 10. Why open voting in general elections is undesirable Bernard Manin; 11. Open-secret voting Adrian Vermeule; 12. Secret votes and secret talk John Ferejohn.