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Elections and electoral integrity

2017
This chapter presents a comparative contextual analysis of parliamentary and presidential elections held in the MENA countries between 2011 and 2015, in order to clarify the relation between electoral integrity, electoral context and political regime.
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Diagnosing Electoral Integrity

2018
Chapter 4 considers the sources of systematic evidence that are available to diagnose problems of American elections. Many claims and counterclaims about alleged malpractice are often heard in partisan debate and journalistic commentary—but during an era of low trust in the legacy news and isolating bubbles in social media, what could help to sort out ...
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Strengthening Electoral Integrity

2017
Today a general mood of pessimism surrounds Western efforts to strengthen elections and democracy abroad. If elections are often deeply flawed or even broken in many countries around the world, can anything be done to fix them? To counter the prevailing ethos, Pippa Norris presents new evidence for why programs of international electoral assistance ...
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Electoral Integrity in Turkish Electoral History

This chapter focuses on Turkish electoral history and studies the electoral problems the country has experienced since the 1940s through the lens of electoral integrity. It provides information on the political landscape of the relevant eras and then, by utilising the incident-based DIEV-T data, descriptively elaborates on the nature and intensity of ...
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Measuring Electoral Integrity

2017
This chapter outlines the core concept and measure of electoral integrity, the key yardstick used by the Electoral Integrity Project (EIP) to evaluate free and fair elections. EIP defines the idea of electoral integrity as the presence of a set of agreed-upon international conventions and global norms, applying universally to all countries worldwide ...
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Electoral ambitions and European integration

International Organization, 1975
Based on interviews with 82 national legislators in all nine member states of the European Community, this article examines and analyzes the attitudes and anticipated behavior of the respondents with respect to political integration. In the analysis we pursued four paths: personal motivations, constituency concerns, views of the European Parliament ...
Werner Feld, John K. Wildgen
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Electoral Management Bodies as Establishers of Electoral Integrity

This chapter elaborates on voters' perceptions of electoral officers and electoral management bodies (EMBs) and links these evaluations to electoral integrity. It presents the evidence by discussing the issue on a global comparative level and relocating the discussion to the Turkish context by providing a historical outlook on the Turkish EMB, the ...
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Integrity of the electoral process

State, security and human rights in digital age
The integrity of the electoral process is a topical issue of crucial importance for the Republic of Moldova, an emerging democracy with a complex history and significant political challenges. Free and fair elections are the foundation of legitimate and accountable governance, and ensuring them requires a robust legal framework and its strict ...
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Electoral Transparency, Accountability, and Integrity

2017
This concluding chapter looks at the links connecting transparency, accountability, and compliance. In particular, it considers an ideal model of electoral accountability. Yet it is unclear whether dissatisfaction with the conduct of elections translates into voting preferences at the ballot box, and there are many conditions under which this ideal ...
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Voting and winning: perceptions of electoral integrity in consolidating democracies

Democratization, 2021
Michal Mochtak, Christophe Lesschaeve, Josip Glaurdić   +2 more
exaly