Electoral Democracy And Management Of Election

Author : Dr. Babudhan Tripura
Publisher : Authors Click Publishing
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9788119368662

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Electoral Democracy and Management of Election by Dr. Babudhan Tripura Pdf

This book, "Electoral Democracy and Management of Elections," delves into the multifaceted aspects of electoral processes, aiming to provide readers with a comprehensive understanding of the theoretical perspectives and practical intricacies involved in conducting free, fair, and efficient elections. The chapters within this book delve into various dimensions of electoral democracy and election management, exploring the historical development, theoretical underpinnings, and contemporary challenges faced in the pursuit of democratic ideals. In the world where the pulse of democracy beats to the rhythm of informed choices, this chapter explores the pivotal role of voter education in enhancing citizen participation. It navigates the labyrinthine pathways that lead to effective voter education programs, unravelling strategies that illuminate the path for both citizens and policymakers. The journey doesn't end there; the chapter dauntlessly confronts barriers that impede voter participation, dissecting each obstacle and charting ways to surmount them.

Author : Fiona Buckley,Theresa Reidy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317189800

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Electoral Management: Institutions and Practices in an Established Democracy by Fiona Buckley,Theresa Reidy Pdf

Over the last three decades, electoral reform has moved centre stage in both new and established democracies. In Europe, the post 1989 democratisation wave brought important debates about electoral system choice and free and fair elections. But electoral reform also emerged on the agenda in a number of established democracies. Declining political participation, corruption scandals and party finance irregularities put the management of the democratic process on the political agenda. Election administration problems such as those in the Gore Bush election of 2000 thrust electoral integrity into the global political spotlight. In this edited collection, we are primarily concerned with the mechanics of how elections are run. Elections are complex administrative tasks and as International IDEA points out, they are also usually administered against a politically charged backdrop. This book brings together specialists to consider the election management process using diverse theoretical approaches and, addressing both emerging and perennial election debates such as the role of voter advice applications, election management bodies, districting, ballot design and media practices in the coverage of elections. The volume includes a number of comparative chapters which utilise data from large international datasets (VDem and CSES), several Irish case studies and an important Dutch study of voter advice applications with pioneering data. Collectively, the chapters provide insights into election administration in Ireland and many other established democracies. This book was previously published as a special issue of Irish Political Studies.

Author : Commonwealth Secretariat
Publisher : Commonwealth Secretariat
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848599413

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Election Management by Commonwealth Secretariat Pdf

Lifting the quality and strengthening the relevance of election management bodies is a continuing work-in-progress: to learn and apply the lessons from each election and rise to the emergence of new challenges, including evolving information and communication technologies and increasing demands for greater transparency and integrity. Election Management: A Compendium of Commonwealth Good Practice is designed to provide policy makers and staff of election management bodies with a guide to the democratic values, principles and practices of the Commonwealth, which should be reflected in the work they do to consolidate and deepen democracy in their countries. It will also assist governments, political parties and civil society organisations understand better the role, functions and responsibilities of those tasked with delivering credible elections. Includes annexes from 45 Commonwealth election management bodies on their countries’ standards for democratic legitimacy, legal frameworks, funding arrangements and administrative structure.

Author : International IDEA
Publisher : International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA)
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789187729669

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Electoral Management Design by International IDEA Pdf

This Handbook was developed for electoral administrators and those involved in reforming EMBs. It provides comparative experience of and best practices on EMB structures and funding models, as well as means for evaluating performance. A range of case studies illustrate examples from specific contexts in Afghanistan, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Costa Rica, Haiti, India, Kenya, the Republic of Korea, Liberia, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Senegal, Republic of Seychelles, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Tunisia, Ukraine, the United Kingdom and the United States. This new and revised edition of the 2006 International IDEA Handbook includes updated country-level data and case studies and significantly expanded sections on the role of gender, professional development and technology in elections.

Author : Toby S. James
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134820986

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Comparative Electoral Management by Toby S. James Pdf

This book offers the first comparative monograph on the management of elections. The book defines electoral management as a new, inter-disciplinary area and advances a realist sociological approach to study it. A series of new, original frameworks are introduced, including the PROSeS framework, which can be used by academics and practitioners around the world to evaluate electoral management quality. A networked governance approach is also introduced to understand the full range of collaborative actors involved in delivering elections, including civil society and the international community. Finally, the book evaluates some of the policy instruments used to improve the integrity of elections, including voter registration reform, training and the funding of elections. Extensive mixed methods are used throughout including thematic analysis of interviews, (auto-)ethnography, comparative historical analysis and, cross-national and national surveys of electoral officials. This text will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners interested and involved in electoral integrity and elections, and more broadly to comparative politics, public administration, international relations and democracy studies. Chapters 1 and 4 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Alan Wall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822034580803

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Electoral Management Design by Alan Wall Pdf

Building trust and professionalism in the management of electoral processes remains a major challenge for Electoral Management Bodies (EMBs), institutions and/or bodies responsible for managing elections. The 'credibility gap' - the diminished public confidence in the integrity and diligence for many electoral institutions and their activities - is a common problem for EMBs around the world. Many EMBs face basic design questions as they seek to work better: how should EMBs be structured to ensure that they can act independently? How do EMBs relate to stakeholders such as the media, political parties and donors? How can EMBs evaluate their performance and use experience to build sustainable elections? "The Electoral Management Design Handbook" is written for electoral administrators, electoral administration designers and other practitioners involved in building professional, sustainable and cost-effective electoral administrations which can deliver legitimate and credible free and fair elections. It is a comparative study that shares best practices and know-how from around the world on financing, structuring and evaluation of Electoral Management Bodies

Author : Madior Fall,Mathias Hounkpe
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781920489748

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Election Management Bodies in West Africa by Madior Fall,Mathias Hounkpe Pdf

This report is an in-depth study of electoral commissions in six countries of West Africa Benin, Cape Verde, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal and Sierra Leone assessing their contribution in strengthening political participation in the region. As institutions that apply the rules governing elections, electoral management bodies (EMBs) have occupied, over the last two decades, the heart of discussion and practice on the critical question of effective citizen participation in the public affairs of their countries. The way in which they are established and the effectiveness of their operations have continued to preoccupy those who advocate for competitive elections, while reforms to the EMBs have taken centre stage in more general political reforms. Election Management Bodies in West Africa thus responds to the evident need for more knowledge about an institution that occupies a more and more important place in the political process in West Africa. Based on documentary research and detailed interviews in each country, the study provides a comparative analysis which highlights the similarities and differences in the structure and operations of each body, and attempts to establish the reasons for their comparative successes and failures.

Author : Ben Reilly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521797306

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Democracy in Divided Societies by Ben Reilly Pdf

This text examines the potential of electoral engineering as a mechanism of conflict management in divided societies. It focuses on the little-known experience of a number of divided societies which have used vote-pooling electoral systems.

Author : Amy Vincent, Sead Alihodzic, Stephen Gale
Publisher : International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA)
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789176714386

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Risk Management in Elections by Amy Vincent, Sead Alihodzic, Stephen Gale Pdf

When electoral risks are not understood and addressed, they can undermine the credibility of the process and the results it yields. Electoral management bodies (EMBs) encounter numerous risks across all phases of the electoral cycle. They operate in environments that are increasingly complex and volatile and where factors such as technology, demographics, insecurity, inaccurate or incomplete information and natural calamities, create increasing uncertainty. The experiences of EMBs show that when formal risk management processes are successfully implemented, the benefits are profound. Greater risk awareness helps organizations to focus their resources on where they are most needed, thus achieving cost-effectiveness. Over the last decade it has been observed that EMBs are increasingly moving from informal to formal risk management processes. The purpose of this Guide is to lay out a set of practical steps for EMBs on how to establish or advance their risk management framework. The Guide’s chapters reflect the breadth of key considerations in the implementation process and offer basic resources to assist in the process.

Author : Kevin Pallister
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351812108

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Election Administration and the Politics of Voter Access by Kevin Pallister Pdf

Democratic countries vary widely in the extent to which the administration of the electoral process facilitates voter participation, showing a great deal of variation in everything from voter registration to the casting of ballots. This book is the first systematic study to investigate why it is easier to vote in some democracies than in others. It develops the concept of election administration inclusiveness, which considers all of the administrative requirements and procedures that a citizen confronts in exercising his or her right to vote. It then draws on in-depth case studies from Central America and data from Latin America more broadly to address how political parties and other actors interact in constructing election administration rules and procedures. Using a theoretical framework centred on electoral threat, party capacity, and electoral management body composition, the author identifies multiple pathways to inclusive and restrictive election administration. This book will be of key interest to students and scholars of elections, democracy studies, Latin American politics, and more broadly comparative politics and law.

Author : Holly Ann Garnett,Margarita Zavadskaya
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315315102

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Electoral Integrity and Political Regimes by Holly Ann Garnett,Margarita Zavadskaya Pdf

Following a normative approach that suggests international norms and standards for elections apply universally, regardless of regime type or cultural context, this book examines the challenges to electoral integrity, the actors involved, and the consequences of electoral malpractice and poor electoral integrity that vary by regime type. It bridges the literature on electoral integrity with that of political regime types. Looking specifically at questions of innovation and learning, corruption and organized crime, political efficacy and turnout, the threat of electoral violence and protest, and finally, the possibility of regime change, it seeks to expand the scholarly understanding of electoral integrity and diverse regimes by exploring the diversity of challenges to electoral integrity, the diversity of actors that are involved and the diversity of consequences that can result. This text will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners of electoral studies, and more broadly of relevance to comparative politics, international development, political behaviour and democracy, democratization, and autocracy.

Author : International IDEA
Publisher : International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA)
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Managing Elections during the COVID-19 Pandemic by International IDEA Pdf

In the midst of the extraordinary challenges and uncertainty stemming from COVID-19, decision-makers are under increasing pressure to determine how to manage the pandemic’s immediate impact on, and consequences for, the timing and sequencing of elections. These decisions cannot be taken lightly, as they could jeopardize public health and shape the state of democracy in their countries, states or territories for years to come. The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly challenged elections, making new and pressing demands on how they are managed. The main public health threat associated with elections arises from the requirement for voters to cast their ballots in person at a polling station, most often on a single day. Having to converge to polling stations and handle voting materials that have been touched by many others, while being confined in crowded spaces where maintaining a safe distance from others may be difficult has suddenly become a new challenge. By devising timely, appropriate and sustainable solutions, drawn from own or others’ experience, electoral democracy frameworks can be gradually strengthened to withstand undue pressure.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015050162901

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Elections by Anonim Pdf

Author : Makulilo, Alexander B.,Ntaganda, Eugene
Publisher : African Minds
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781920677978

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Election Management Bodies in East Africa by Makulilo, Alexander B.,Ntaganda, Eugene Pdf

The management of elections is increasingly generating impassioned debate in these East African nations - Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. The bodies that manage and conduct elections are, therefore, coming under intense citizen and stakeholder scrutiny for the manner in which they are composed, how they organise and perform their mandates, and the outcomes they achieve. The effectiveness of electoral management bodies (EMBs) has largely been influenced by the impact of political violence on election management reforms in East Africa. Even in countries where EMBs are the products of reforms initiated in the aftermath of violent disputes over elections, they still face enormous challenges in dealing with electoral disputes and anticipating election-related crises. Although changes to constitutions and the laws in these countries have sought to make EMBs independent and, therefore, more inclined to deliver free, fair and credible elections, there are many issues that determine their impartiality and their ability to allow for the aggregation and free expression of the will of the people. These shortcomings negatively impact on democracy. This volume assembles case studies on the capacity of EMBs in these five East African countries to deliver democratic and transparent elections.

Author : Pippa Norris,Richard W. Frank,Ferran Martínez i Coma
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199368716

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Advancing Electoral Integrity by Pippa Norris,Richard W. Frank,Ferran Martínez i Coma Pdf

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.