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OSCE experts to estimate preparations for elections in Ukraine May 22-25 - ForUm
08 June 2012 | cis, elections, europe, pre-election, ukraineAn expert mission of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights will arrive in Ukraine on May 22 to assess preparations for the upcoming parliamentary elections, Oleh Voloshyn,...
Blogpost: Can International Election Monitoring Harm Governance?
14 May 2012 | blogpost, elections, paper, studyAccording to a convincing new paper (ungated version here) by political scientists Alberto Simpser and Daniela Donno, the answer is a definite yes. As election monitoring has increased, governments...
PACE delegation to arrive in Armenia in order to assess pre-electoral campaign | Armenia News - NEWS.am
10 April 2012 | armenia, cis, council of europe, elections, electoral systems, europeYEREVAN. – The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly delegation will visit Armenia on April 11-12 in order to evaluate the pre-election campaign process. Three PACE members will visit Armenia and...
Carter Center Launches Database of Obligations for Democratic Elections (Carter Center, 7 April 2011)
07 April 2011 | assessment, database, elections, international law, legislation, methodology, press releaseThe Carter Center this week launched the Database of Obligations for Democratic Elections, the first of its kind to consolidate more than 150 sources of international law related to human rights and...
Blogpost: Political Parties in Kosovo fail the transparency test (TI, 6 April 2011)
06 April 2011 | blogpost, cis, corruption, elections, kosovo, transparencyMoney, like elections, is an inherent part of multi-party democracy. However, if not transparent, money in politics carries equally inherent risks of corruption. Transparency in political financing...
US: See That Your Vote Counted: Sign-Up for the Post-Election Audit Observations Now! (CTVotersCount.org, 17 Aug 2010)
20 August 2010 | elections, north america, opportunityBy Luther Weeks on August 17, 2010 Investment? One DayValue to Democracy? Priceless We are pleased to announce that the Connecticut Citizen Election Audit Coalition (League of Women Voters...
Uganda: Citizen Hotline Launched Ahead of Elections (NDI, 11 Aug 2010)
11 August 2010 | citizen monitoring, commentary, data, data collection, elections, social accountability, web resourceDuring 2006 elections in Uganda, international observers and domestic monitors reported significant violations of electoral law and protocol, including disenfranchisement of voters, counting and...
Report: Burma’s 2010 Electoral Framework: Fundamentally Undemocratic- a Legal and Human Rights Analysis (NDI, 3 Aug 2010)
03 August 2010 | asia pacific, elections, human rights, myanmar, publication, reportThe process surrounding national elections in Burma, expected later this year, “is clearly designed to guarantee a pre-determined outcome and, therefore, does not meet even the very minimum of...
Vacancies (Kenya): Fund Manager-African Technology and Transparency Initiative & Co-ordinator (ICT) Election Watch (Hivos, 28 July 2010)
29 July 2010 | elections, ict, transparency, vacancyMore than 241 people are employed at Hivos, mostly at head office in The Hague. Part of the work is decentralised to the Regional Offices in Zimbabwe, India, Indonesia and Costa Rica. Hivos is a...
The spatial diffusion of social conformity: the case of voting participation (Munich RePEc, 7 June 2010)
07 June 2010 | elections, russia, study, usa, voter participationColeman, Stephen (2010): The spatial diffusion of social conformity: the case of voting participation. Unpublished.