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Monitoring democracy [[electronic resource] ] : when international election observation works, and why it often fails / / Judith G. Kelley



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Autore: Kelley Judith Green Visualizza persona
Titolo: Monitoring democracy [[electronic resource] ] : when international election observation works, and why it often fails / / Judith G. Kelley Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, 2012
Edizione: Course Book
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (359 p.)
Disciplina: 324.6/5
Soggetto topico: Election monitoring
Soggetto non controllato: Cold War
IGOs
NGOs
civil rights
democracy promotion
democracy
domestic governance
domestic political process
domestic politics
domestic potential
election cheating
election monitoring
election monitors
election patterns
election quality
elections
electoral cheating
electoral process
fairness
freedom
global governance
good electoral practices
governments
honesty
individual elections
international community
international election monitoring
international institutions
international leaders
international leverage
international monitors
international organizations
international politics
international standards
media organizations
monitoring efforts
monitoring information
monitoring organizations
monitoring process
monitoring
monitors
nonrandom intervention
organizational delegation
political conditionality
political rights
politicians
politics
qantitative data
recommendations
reinforcement
risky irregularities
safer irregularities
shadow market
skeptics
stability
transnational actors
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Part I -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Rise of a New Norm -- Chapter 3. The Shadow Market -- Chapter 4. What Influences Monitors' Assessments? -- Chapter 5. Do Politicians Change Tactics to Evade Criticism? -- Part II -- Chapter 6. International Monitors as Reinforcement -- Chapter 7. Are Monitored Elections Better? -- Chapter 8. Long- Term Effects -- Conclusion: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly -- Appendix A: Data Description -- Appendix B: Statistical Supplement to Chapter 3 -- Appendix C: Statistical Supplement to Chapter 4 -- Appendix D: Statistical Supplement to Chapter 7 / Buntaine, Mark -- Appendix E: Case Summaries / Kolev, Kiril -- Notes -- References -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: In recent decades, governments and NGO's--in an effort to promote democracy, freedom, fairness, and stability throughout the world--have organized teams of observers to monitor elections in a variety of countries. But when more organizations join the practice without uniform standards, are assessments reliable? When politicians nonetheless cheat and monitors must return to countries even after two decades of engagement, what is accomplished? Monitoring Democracy argues that the practice of international election monitoring is broken, but still worth fixing. By analyzing the evolving interaction between domestic and international politics, Judith Kelley refutes prevailing arguments that international efforts cannot curb government behavior and that democratization is entirely a domestic process. Yet, she also shows that democracy promotion efforts are deficient and that outside actors often have no power and sometimes even do harm. Analyzing original data on over 600 monitoring missions and 1,300 elections, Kelley grounds her investigation in solid historical context as well as studies of long-term developments over several elections in fifteen countries. She pinpoints the weaknesses of international election monitoring and looks at how practitioners and policymakers might help to improve them.
Titolo autorizzato: Monitoring democracy  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-49446-8
9786613589699
1-4008-4252-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910789980603321
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