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E-Voting PhD position in Spain

And a final post for today. Jordi Barrat gave me note about a job offering for a PhD position on E-Voting. He is constitutional law professor at the University of Alicante. You don't need to be proficient in Spanish although it would definitely help a lot ;-)

Read more here:

Framework: The position is funded by the Spanish government within the
following research project: SEJ2007-64886 (Citizens, new technologies and decision process: the e-voting challenges).

The main goal of the project consist in assessing the challenges of e-voting systems with an approach based on social sciences, including law, political science and philosophy. Its members belong to different Spanish Universities: the University of Barcelona, the Complutense University of Madrid and the Rovira i Virgili University.

Topic: Electronic Voting. It includes, but it is not limited, the following topics:

• certification procedures
• digital divide
• auditability
• transparency
• vote's secrecy
• freedom of vote
• usability
• technoscience
• identification procedures
• electoral authorities
• political socialization
• effects on turnout
  

Years: 2008 / 2011 (4 years)

Location: Depending on the scientific profile of the candidate.

He/She will work together with one of our current

members who belong to different Universities: Law (Alacant,

Complutense or Rovira i Virgili), Political Sciencie and Philosphy

(Barcelona).

Call for candidatures: expected January 2008.

People interested should send ASAP a cv and a short research outline to jordi.barrat@ua.es

Full post as published by Election Updates on January 09, 2008 (boomark / email).