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The EU's Strategy for Sustainability: A Landmark Turn With the European Green Deal?

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While the European Green Deal (EGD) has been widely recognized as a milestone in the EU's sustainability strategy, scholars disagree on the nature of the policy change it represents. Critics highlight its limited social and environmental ambitions, despite its portrayal as a “man on the moon” moment.
Ekaterina Domorenok, Franco Gatti
wiley   +1 more source

Should the guardians be independent? Electoral management bodies and electoral integrity

, 2020
Fair elections are fundamental for democratic governance, they are the result of a complex process, the implementation of which requires the application and responsible execution of all procedures at all stages of the electoral cycle. In many non-democratic countries, the falsification of voting results is carried out regularly.
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Learning From and Through Evaluation: An Examination of Practice

New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article, we provide an analysis across the foregoing practice‐based case exemplars to understand antecedent conditions and influences, learning‐oriented evaluation strategies, estimates of strategy success or potential success, and factors that either enable or hinder the extent to which learning from and through evaluation occurs. The
J. Bradley Cousins, Jill Chouinard
wiley   +1 more source

Actual Problems of Electoral Laws of the Russian Federation Reforming

Èkonomika, Pedagogika i Pravo, 2015
Development of Russia and democracy at the present stage can't be presented without institute of elections. Elections have serious impact on all historical way of development of the state, at the same time in Russia there are many problems in the sphere ...
Dmitriy O. Ezhevskiy
doaj  

The Impact of Global Election Observation on the Promotion of Fair Elections and Best Practices in Election Management Worldwide

Panoply Journal
  A Systematic Review International election observation has become a critical mechanism in ensuring election integrity, promoting democratic values, and enhancing the legitimacy of electoral processes worldwide.
Frank Prince Diepreye
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From Insight to Theory: Advancing Sentiment Evaluation for Diaspora Development Projects

New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article develops the concept of “sentiment evaluation,” drawing on a mid‐term evaluation by the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) of its program supporting Somali diaspora activism in Somaliland. Conducted in 2014, the evaluation revealed that “sentiment,” the emotional, identity‐based attachment linking diaspora actors to their homeland ...
Valeria Saggiomo, Twesigye Jackson Kaguri   +1 more
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IndElec: A Software for Analyzing Party Systems and Electoral Systems

Journal of Statistical Software, 2011
IndElec is a software addressed to compute a wide range of indices from electoral data, which are intended to analyze both party systems and electoral systems in political studies.
Francisco Ocaña, Pablo Oñate
doaj  

Ghana’s 2020 electoral politics: an assessment of the electoral commission

Cogent Social Sciences
The independence of election management bodies is very crucial for the durability and success of every democracy. This paper assessed the independence of Ghana’s Electoral Commission in the conduct of the December 2020 elections using the de jure ...
Akpeko Agbevade
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The Learning Function of Evaluation: A Conceptual Framing

New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article, we set out a conceptual overview of what we call learning in the evaluation ecosystem to depict the interplay between external influences, organizational and community factors, and learning levers (e.g. capacity building, systems thinking).
Jill Anne Chouinard, J. Bradley Cousins
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MANAGING ELECTORAL STORMS: THE INTERPLAY OF POWER-SHARING AND ELECTORAL INSTITUTIONS IN ZANZIBAR

The reinstatement of the multiparty system in Zanzibar in 1992 marked the onset of turbulent election-related strife, characterized by a recurring pattern of violence, killings, and social unrest during every electoral cycle (John, 2020). Minde et al.
Fatima, A. Hassan, Joseph, M. Ndungu
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