The Hidden Costs of Clean Election Reform - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hidden Costs of Clean Election Reform write by Frederic Charles Schaffer. This book was released on 2008. The Hidden Costs of Clean Election Reform available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Schaffer reveals how tinkering with the electoral process, even with the best of intentions, can easily damage democratic ideals.
Contentious Elections
Contentious Elections - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contentious Elections write by Pippa Norris. This book was released on 2015-04-10. Contentious Elections available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe the world has witnessed a rising tide of contentious elections ending in heated partisan debates, court challenges, street protests, and legitimacy challenges. In some cases, disputes have been settled peacefully through legal appeals and electoral reforms. In the worst cases, however, disputes have triggered bloodshed or government downfalls and military coups. Contentious elections are characterized by major challenges, with different degrees of severity, to the legitimacy of electoral actors, procedures, or outcomes. Despite growing concern, until recently little research has studied this phenomenon. The theory unfolded in this volume suggests that problems of electoral malpractice erode confidence in electoral authorities, spur peaceful protests demonstrating against the outcome, and, in the most severe cases, lead to outbreaks of conflict and violence. Understanding this process is of vital concern for domestic reformers and the international community, as well as attracting a growing new research agenda. The editors, from the Electoral Integrity Project, bring together scholars considering a range of fresh evidence– analyzing public opinion surveys of confidence in elections and voter turnout within specific countries, as well as expert perceptions of the existence of peaceful electoral demonstrations, and survey and aggregate data monitoring outbreaks of electoral violence. The book provides insights invaluable for studies in democracy and democratization, comparative politics, comparative elections, peace and conflict studies, comparative sociology, international development, comparative public opinion, political behavior, political institutions, and public policy.
Why Electoral Integrity Matters
Why Electoral Integrity Matters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Electoral Integrity Matters write by Pippa Norris. This book was released on 2014-06-30. Why Electoral Integrity Matters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book is the first in a planned trilogy by Pippa Norris on Challenges of Electoral Integrity to be published by Cambridge University Press. Unfortunately too often elections around the globe are deeply flawed or even fail. Why does this matter? It is widely suspected that such contests will undermine confidence in elected authorities, damage voting turnout, trigger protests, exacerbate conflict, and occasionally lead to regime change. Well-run elections, by themselves, are insufficient for successful transitions to democracy. But flawed, or even failed, contests are thought to wreck fragile progress. Is there good evidence for these claims? Under what circumstances do failed elections undermine legitimacy? With a global perspective, using new sources of data for mass and elite evidence, this book provides fresh insights into these major issues.
Checkbook Elections?
Checkbook Elections? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Checkbook Elections? write by Pippa Norris. This book was released on 2016-06-01. Checkbook Elections? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Money is essential to the functioning of electoral politics, yet regulating its appropriate use raises complex and controversial challenges in countries around the world. Both long-established democracies and emerging economies have been continually plagued by problems of financial malfeasance, graft, corruption, and cronyism. To throw new light on these important challenges, this book addresses three related questions: (1) what types of public policies are commonly used in attempts to regulate the role of money in politics?, (2) what triggers landmark finance reforms? and, (3) above all, what works, what fails, and why - when countries implement reforms? Checkbook Elections? presents an original theory for understanding policies regulating political finance, reflecting the degree to which laws are laissez-faire or guided by state intervention. Each chapter is written by an area specialist and collectively cover long-established democracies as well as hybrid regimes, affluent post-industrial societies (Sweden, the United States, Britain, and Japan), major emerging economies (Russia, Brazil, and South Africa) and developing societies (India and Indonesia).
Why Elections Fail
Why Elections Fail - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Elections Fail write by Pippa Norris. This book was released on 2015-07-08. Why Elections Fail available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Too often, elections around the globe are, unfortunately, deeply flawed or even fail. What triggers these problems? In this second volume of her trilogy on electoral integrity, Pippa Norris compares structural, international, and institutional accounts as alternative perspectives to explain why elections fail to meet international standards. The book argues that rules preventing political actors from manipulating electoral governance are needed to secure integrity, although at the same time officials also need sufficient resources and capacities to manage elections effectively. Drawing on new evidence, the study determines the most effective types of strategies for strengthening the quality of electoral governance around the world. With a global perspective, this book provides fresh insights into these major issues at the heart of the study of elections and voting behavior, comparative politics, democracy and democratization, political culture, democratic governance, public policymaking, development, international relations and conflict studies, and processes of regime change.
