This volume represents an important contribution towards gaining a cross-national understanding of the current and emerging impacts of the Internet on political practice.

Section 1: Conceptualizing and Designing the Project 1. Introducing the Internet and Elections Project 2. The Internet and Elections Project Research Design Section 2: Political Actors as Web Producers 3. Finland: The European Parliament Election in a Candidate-Centered Electoral System 4. The Netherlands: Party and Candidate Web Sites during the 2004 European Parliament Election Campaign 5. Slovenian Online Campaigning during the 2004 European Parliament Election: Struggling Between Self-promotion and Mobilization 6. The Consequence of e-Excellence: Party Web Sites in the Czech Campaign for the 2004 European Parliament 7. Online Structure for Political Action in the 2004 U.S. Congressional Electoral Web Sphere Section 3: Reaching Diverse Constituencies Via the Web 8. Philippines: Poli-Clicking as Politicking. Online Campaigning and Civic Action in the 2004 National Election 9. The Internet in the 2004 Sri Lankan Elections 10. Addressing Young People Online: The 2004 European Parliament Election Campaign and Political Youth Web Sites 11. Two Indias: The Role of the Internet in the 2004 National Elections Section 4: Political Culture and the Diffusion of Technologies 12. Web-based Citizen Engagement in the 2004 Australian Federal Election 13. Hungary: Political Strategies and Citizen Tactics in the 2004 European Parliament Elections 14. Internet Deployment in the 2004 Indonesian Presidential Elections 15. Roles and Regulations: Boundaries on the Japanese Web Sphere in the 2004 Upper House Election 16. Web Sphere Analysis for Political Web Sites: The 2004 National Assembly Election in South Korea Section 5: Comparisons and Conclusions 17. Comparing Web Production Practices across Electoral Web Spheres 18. Project Conclusions and Proposals for Continued Research