Electoral Systems

A growing body of knowledge exists on election assessments and election monitoring. To monitor the electoral process is crucial and safeguards integrity; it protects the viability and honesty of election administration, as well as the participation of political parties, candidates and interest groups. Monitoring may be conducted by the media, political parties, and/or national and international election observers.
 
Increasingly, a store of toolkits and methods for conducting post-election reviews and pre-election needs assessments is available. Post-election reviews are being used more and more by Election Management Boards to assess the adequacy of the legal and management structures of elections and their performance in delivering acceptable elections. A post-election review report analyzes what worked well, what did not, and why. 
 
Assessments that have a broader focus than the election day provide an opportunity to tackle a range of electoral and development challenges that will ultimately affect the quality and perception of electoral processes.The ongoing emergence of international electoral standards, as codified by key international civil society and multilateral organizations, provides the most important basis for development of electoral assessments. However, these are yet to be translated into a comprehensive assessment instrument that can be used globally.  

Tools for Assessing Governance

Examples of Country Initiatives

  • En 2005, Poder Ciudadano se propuso digitalizar el Banco de Datos para las elecciones de cargos nacionales (diputados y senadores). Para esto desarroll…

    Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
    Fundacion Poder Ciudadano
  • The Opinion Polls and Survey Studies Center is a research institute established to coordinate and conduct surveys on a range of different political, economical…

    Cyprus
    An-Najah National University
  • According to a special law the Czech Statistical Office provides all the results of all kinds of election in the country, statistical data about share…

    Iceland
    Czech Statistical Office
  • This study illustrates the impact of HIV/AIDS on electoral processes in South Africa and provides the first available evidence of the influence of the…

    Canada
    Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA)

Global Indicators

  • The stated purpose of the ACE Comparative Data is to provide comparative data on election practices worldwide.

  • To provide data on quotas for women in public elections, together with the proportion of seats occupied by women. Also provides detailed case studies…

Organizations