Advancing Electoral Integrity by Norris, Pippa; Frank, Richard W.; Martinez i Coma, Ferran;

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Publisher OUP USA
Date of Publication 29 May 2014

ISBN 9780199368709
Binding Hardback
No. of pages316 pages
Size 157x234x17 mm
Weight 581 g
Language English

Short description:

This volume collects essays from international experts who evaluate the robustness, conceptual validity, and reliability of the growing body of evidence of voter fraud and electoral misconduct around the world in developed and developing democracies.

Long description:

Recent decades have seen growing concern about problems of electoral integrity. The most overt malpractices used by rulers include imprisoning dissidents, harassing adversaries, coercing voters, vote-rigging counts, and even blatant disregard for the popular vote. Serious violations of human rights, undermining electoral credibility, are widely condemned by domestic observers and the international community. Recent protests about integrity have mobilized in countries as diverse as Russia, Mexico, and Egypt. Elsewhere minor irregularities are common, exemplified by inaccurate voter registers, maladministration of polling facilities, lack of security in absentee ballots, pro-government media bias, ballot miscounts, and gerrymandering. Long-standing democracies are far from immune to these ills; past problems include the notorious hanging chads in Florida in 2000 and more recent accusations of voter fraud and voter suppression during the Obama-Romney contest.

In response to these developments, there have been growing attempts to analyze flaws in electoral integrity using systematic data from cross-national time-series, forensic analysis, field experiments, case studies, and new instruments monitoring mass and elite perceptions of malpractices. This volume collects essays from international experts who evaluate the robustness, conceptual validity, and reliability of the growing body of evidence. The essays compare alternative approaches and apply these methods to evaluate the quality of elections in several areas, including in the United States, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America.

The strength of this volume is its inclusion of both practitioners and scholars and its connection to the Electoral Integrity Index, a real world effort to improve how we think about and assess election quality and - ultimately - political legitimacy. It provides an invaluable set of perspectives for students, scholars and policy makers alike who want to think about what can be done to improve elections around the world.

List of tables and figures
Preface and acknowledgments
Notes about contributors
Introduction
1. Introduction: Challenges of Electoral Integrity, Pippa Norris
When do elections fail? Standards and evidence
2. Assessing Elections, Avery Davies-Roberts and David J. Carroll
3. Methods and Evidence, Pippa Norris, J?rgen Elklit and Andrew Reynolds
4. Expert Judgments, Ferran Martinez i Coma and Richard W. Frank
5. Election Monitoring, Ursula Daxecker and Gerald Schneider
Do Institutions Matter? Managing elections
6. Constitutions and Election Management, Svitlana Chernykh, Zachary Elkins, James Melton and Tom Ginsburg
7. Electoral Management in Central America, Antonio Ugues, Jr.
8. Election Management in Britain, Toby S. James
9. Investing in Electoral Management, Alistair Clark
Does lack of integrity undermine legitimacy?
10. EMB Performance and African Perceptions of Electoral Integrity, Nicholas N. Kerr
11. Electoral Integrity and Democratic Legitimacy in Africa, Robert Mattes
12. Electoral Trust in Latin America, Arturo Maldonado and Mitchell Seligson
13. American Attitudes towards Election Fraud, Thad E. Hall and Charles Stewart
Conclusions: What Is To Be Done? Policy Interventions
14. Lessons From the Ground: What Have We Learnt? What Do We Do Next? Roundtable Discussion with Eric Bjornlund, David Carroll, Staffan Darnolf, Annette Fath-Lihic, Aleida Ferreyra, Betilde Mu?oz-Pogossian, Pippa Norris, and Chad Vickery
Index