Constitutional Rights in the Digital Context : Exploring a Translation of the Constitutional Political Rights into the Digital Sphere

Abstract

The research discusses regulatory deficits at the intersection of constitutional law and its practical affordance in the digital era. This dissertation is based on the legal policy objective of evaluating future regulations in terms of their suitability for the realisation of political rights in the changed digital environment. The dissertation suggests specific evolutions of legal theory to respond to the technological era and ends with a few specific regulatory proposals.