5/16/2023 0 Comments Election integrityOne question concerns who should serve as members of polling station boards, administer election day proceedings, and participate in the vote count. In recent years, election administration has become a subject of intensified debates, raising questions of how to organize elections to ensure electoral integrity. This paper aims to identify the legal framework in the details of Balkan countries related to electoral reform, going through recommendations through comparison and quantitative methodology and bringing Czech legislative dimension as a smart solution of problems that countries face in the electoral process. The development of liberal democracy in Balkan countries is conditioned by the level of realization of synergy in the interaction between different factors. Clusters analysis performed using estimates of distances between indicators related to the electoral process, the development of a liberal democracy, general economic development and the level of corruption present significant distances. In the Balkan countries, the positive relationship between the electoral process and the development of liberal democracy is evident, while the level of corruption is a factor that has a significant effect on the electoral process. Referring to perceptions of the level of fulfillment of international standards for democratic elections (PEI), the Balkan region is classified in the group of countries belonging to the “Moderate” category. The results of a comparative analysis based on the Electoral Integrity Index, evaluated for the period 2011–2021 in the Balkan countries are this paper’s objectives. © 2018 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature We examine one potential new form of democratic institution, quadratic voting, as an example of a new institutional possibility facilitated by blockchain technology. The central claim is that blockchain lowers the social costs of disorder in the democratic process, mainly by incorporating information about preferences through new structures of democratic decision making. This paper analyses the potential of a cryptodemocracy using institutional cryptoeconomics and the Institutional Possibility Frontier (IPF). Blockchain could be applied to the voting and electoral process to form new institutional possibilities in a cryptodemocracy. As a governance technology, blockchain reduces the costs of coordinating information and preferences between dispersed people. These decisions over the structure of democracy are constrained by the technologies and institutions available. Society must choose between competing institutional frameworks for the conduct of voting and elections. Democracy is an economic problem of choice constrained by transaction costs and information costs.
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