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Author: Sarah Birch Publisher: OUP UK ISBN: 0199606161 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 220
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Electoral Malpractice shows how this phenomenon might be reduced by means of a variety of strategies designed to raise the cost of electoral manipulation by increasing the ability of civil society and international actors to monitor and denounce it.
Author: Sarah Birch Publisher: OUP UK ISBN: 0199606161 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 220
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Electoral Malpractice shows how this phenomenon might be reduced by means of a variety of strategies designed to raise the cost of electoral manipulation by increasing the ability of civil society and international actors to monitor and denounce it.
Author: Sonja Zmerli Publisher: ECPR Press ISBN: 1907301585 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 240
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This book, by Sonja Zmerli and Marc Hooghe, presents cutting-edge empirical research on political trust as a relational concept. From a European comparative perspective it addresses a broad range of contested issues. Can political trust be conceived as a one-dimensional concept and to what extent do international population surveys warrant the culturally equivalent measurement of political trust across European societies? Is there indeed an observable general trend of declining levels of political trust? What are the individual, societal and political prerequisites of political trust and how do they translate into trustful attitudes? Why do so many Eastern European citizens still distrust their political institutions and how does the implementation of welfare state policies both enhance and benefit from political trust? The comprehensive empirical evidence presented in this book by leading scholars provides valuable insights into the relational aspects of political trust and will certainly stimulate future research. This book features: a state-of-the-art European perspective on political trust; an analysis of the most recent trends with regard to the development of political trust; a comparison of traditional and emerging democracies in Europe; the consequences of political trust on political stability and the welfare state; a counterbalance to the gloomy American picture of declining political trust levels.
Author: R. Michael Alvarez Publisher: Brookings Institution Press ISBN: 0815701608 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 272
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Allegations of fraud have marred recent elections around the world, from Russia and Italy to Mexico and the United States. Such charges raise fundamental questions about the quality of democracy in each country. Yet election fraud and, more broadly, electoral manipulation remain remarkably understudied concepts. There is no consensus on what constitutes election fraud, let alone how to detect and deter it. E lection Fraud: Detecting and Deterring Electoral Manipulation brings together experts on election law, election administration, and U.S. and comparative politics to address these critical issues. The first part of the book, which opens with an essay by Craig Donsanto of the U.S. Department of Justice, examines the U.S. understanding of election fraud in comparative perspective. In the second part of the book, D. Roderick Kiewiet, Jonathan N. Katz, and other scholars of U.S. elections draw on a wide variety of sources, including survey data, incident reports, and state-collected fraud allegations, to measure the extent and nature of election fraud in the United States. Finally, the third part of the book analyzes techniques for detecting and potentially deterring fraud. These strategies include both statistical analysis, as Walter R. Mebane, Jr. and Peter Ordeshook explain, and the now widespread practice of election monitoring, which Alberto Simpser examines in an intriguing essay.
Author: Tah Asongwed Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 128
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GUIDE TO ELECTORAL FRAUD Loser take all By Tah Asongwed Some people mistakenly thought elections could be fraud free until they witnessed a form of electoral fraud practiced in the United States of America during the 2000 presidential elections. Until then, it had always been assumed that electoral fraud was a plague that affected mainly developing countries, especially African countries where elections, by their very nature and definition, are fraud-stained. Guide to Electoral Fraud (Loser take all) is a very original and professional work of art that lays down the broad strokes of electoral fraud actions that can be undertaken by any individual or group of individuals aspiring to an elective office. While its main focus is Africa, there is no doubt that politicians and readers all over the world will find it extremely useful. Everywhere on the African continent, people at all levels are involved in an oedipal struggle for survival and regeneration and clamoring for the right to take part in selecting those who should reign over them. This is a basic, fundamental, and legitimate quest for self-development because no people, no matter how lowly, can accept to carry the yoke of oppression indefinitely. Moreover, people want to believe the illusion that elections produce good leaders. President Gaulus Machando Mayabi has felt obliged to draw the attention of the world, and particularly that of incumbent and aspiring African tribal president-monarchs, to what they need to do to continue maintaining themselves in power by force so as to keep their people in abject subjugation and their countries on the straight and downward road to political, economic, and cultural ruin. There comes a time in the political life of nations and in the political fortunes of leaders when someone, preferably a man of honor and integrity like President Gaulus Machando Mayabi, has to take up the gauntlet in the defense of his fellow African tribal president-monarchs and himself under the pretext that he is defending the nation and its institutions. Guide to Electoral Fraud (Loser take all) has therefore been written to cater primarily to the interests of reigning tribal African president-monarchs. But beyond serving the needs of African tribal president-monarchs and aspiring candidates for elective office, it is also intended to serve a much wider and composite audience made up of international observers, donor countries, foreign embassy staff, international spy networks, political scientists, African and foreign politicians, students of politics, human rights organizations, etc. Although most African tribal president-monarchs are already very familiar with the methods described in this book, it is hoped that the book will serve as a ready reckoner and as a kind of vade mecum so that each time they want to organize an election, all they have to do is pick up the book and refer to the appropriate recipe, and then use their imagination to concoct the menu they want to serve their people. Their imagination is therefore the limit. Guide to Electoral Fraud (Loser take all) is an elections rulebook and the holy grail of election malpractice. It rightly parts the curtains for the world to peep inside the dark kitchen where African elections are cooked. The reader will be able to take a glimpse at the soot-stained white chefs and advisers of African tribal president-monarchs while sniffing the suffocating stench of the elections mishmash. Chances are that readers will be knocked out instantly by the black pall of smoke from the kitchen but, hopefully, the smoke shouldn't take long to clear for them to see through the election smokescreen and behold the stark nudity of the African tin gods sitting round the fireplace and stirring the election cauldron. There is no doubt that Guide to Electoral Fraud (Loser take all) will fill the yawning gap that exists in the world's knowledge about the way undemocratic elections are con
Author: Holly Ann Garnett Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1315315106 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 247
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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: Pippa Norris Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317526848 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 190
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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.
Author: Pippa Norris Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 131752683X Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 281
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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.
Author: Nic Cheeseman Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300280831 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 343
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An engrossing analysis of the pseudo-democratic methods employed by despots around the world to retain control Contrary to what is commonly believed, authoritarian leaders who agree to hold elections are generally able to remain in power longer than autocrats who refuse to allow the populace to vote. In this engaging and provocative book, Nic Cheeseman and Brian Klaas expose the limitations of national elections as a means of promoting democratization, and reveal the six essential strategies that dictators use to undermine the electoral process in order to guarantee victory for themselves. Based on their firsthand experiences as election watchers and their hundreds of interviews with presidents, prime ministers, diplomats, election officials, and conspirators, Cheeseman and Klaas document instances of election rigging from Argentina to Zimbabwe, including notable examples from Brazil, India, Nigeria, Russia, and the United States—touching on the 2016 election. This eye-opening study offers a sobering overview of corrupted professional politics, while providing fertile intellectual ground for the development of new solutions for protecting democracy from authoritarian subversion.
Author: Sarah Birch Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691203644 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 224
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A comprehensive look at how violence has been used to manipulate competitive electoral processes around the world since World War II Throughout their history, political elections have been threatened by conflict, and the use of force has in the past several decades been an integral part of electoral processes in a significant number of contemporary states. However, the study of elections has yet to produce a comprehensive account of electoral violence. Drawing on cross-national data sets together with fourteen detailed case studies from around the world, Electoral Violence, Corruption, and Political Order offers a global comparative analysis of violent electoral practices since the Second World War. Sarah Birch shows that the way power is structured in society largely explains why elections are at risk of violence in some contexts but not in others. Countries with high levels of corruption and weak democratic institutions are especially vulnerable to disruptions of electoral peace. She examines how corrupt actors use violence to back up other forms of electoral manipulation, including vote buying and ballot stuffing. In addition to investigating why electoral violence takes place, Birch considers what can be done to prevent it in the future, arguing that electoral authority and the quality of electoral governance are more important than the formal design of electoral institutions. Delving into a deeply influential aspect of political malpractice, Electoral Violence, Corruption, and Political Order explores the circumstances in which individuals choose to employ violence as an electoral strategy.
Author: Sarah Birch
Author: Sarah Birch
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Author: Pippa Norris
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