@incollection{Steiger2019,
  author    = {Steiger, Dominik},
  title     = {International law and new challenges to democracy in the digital age},
  series = {Big data, political campaigning and the law : democracy and privacy in the age of micro-targeting},
  booktitle = {Big data, political campaigning and the law : democracy and privacy in the age of micro-targeting},
  editor    = {Witzleb, Normann and Paterson, Moira and Richardson, Janice},
  publisher = {Routledge},
  address   = {London},
  isbn      = {9780429288654},
  doi       = {10.4324/9780429288654},
  pages     = {71 -- 98},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {This chapter aims to analyse whether and how democracy is actually threatened by big-data-based operations and what role international law can play to respond to this possible threat. It shows how big-data-based operations challenge democracy and how international law can help in defending it. The chapter focuses on both state and non-state actors may undermine democracy through big data operations; although democracy as such is a rather underdeveloped concept in international law, which is often more concerned with effectivity than legitimacy - international law protects against these challenges via a democracy-based approach rooted in international human rights law on the one hand, and the principle of non-intervention on the other hand. Thus, although democracy does not play a major role in international law, international law nevertheless is able to protect democracy against challenges from the inside as well as outside.},
  language  = {en}
}