Electoral Malpractice

Author : Sarah Birch
Publisher : OUP UK
ISBN 13 : 0199606161
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Electoral Malpractice written by Sarah Birch and published by OUP UK. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 13 : 1907301585
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Trust written by Sonja Zmerli and published by ECPR Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Holly Ann Garnett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315315106
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Electoral Integrity and Political Regimes written by Holly Ann Garnett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 13 : 131752683X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contentious Elections written by Pippa Norris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Sarah Birch
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691203644
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Electoral Violence, Corruption, and Political Order written by Sarah Birch and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Transparency International Kenya
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dealing with Electoral Malpractice written by Transparency International Kenya and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pippa Norris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Do Public Perceptions of Electoral Malpractice Undermine Democratic Satisfaction? The U.S. In Comparative Perspective written by Pippa Norris and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doubts about the legitimacy of the 2016 U.S. elections continue to reverberate and deepen partisan mistrust in America. The perfect storm followed Republican allegations of fake news and massive voter fraud, Democratic complaints of voter suppression and gerrymandering, discontent with the way that the Electoral College anointed the presidential candidate who lost the popular vote, compounded by Comey's interventions and intelligence reports of Russian meddling. These issues raise the broader question: how serious do any perceived electoral flaws usually have to be to raise doubts not just about the process and results - or even the legitimacy of the declared winner - but about democracy itself? Do ordinary people actually care most about the quality of their elections (input legitimacy) or are they more concerned with the pocket-book economy of jobs, growth, and taxes (output legitimacy) and/or are attitudes shaped by partisan cues (the winners-losers thesis)? And how do attitudes vary among electoral winners and losers? To understand these issues, Part I outlines the theoretical and conceptual framework. Part II describes the evidence used to investigate these issues drawing upon cross-national data from the World Values Survey 6th wave in 42 diverse societies and from the 7th wave U.S. survey, as well as expert indices measuring the quality of elections. Part III establishes the key cross-national findings. Part IV presents the US results. Part V summarizes the key findings and overall implications, demonstrating that doubts about electoral integrity undermine general satisfaction with how democracy works.

Author : R. Michael Alvarez
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815701608
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Election Fraud written by R. Michael Alvarez and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guide to Electoral Fraud written by Tah Asongwed and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2004 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Alberto Simpser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107311322
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Governments and Parties Manipulate Elections written by Alberto Simpser and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do parties and governments cheat in elections they cannot lose? This book documents the widespread use of blatant and excessive manipulation of elections and explains what drives this practice. Alberto Simpser shows that, in many instances, elections are about more than winning. Electoral manipulation is not only a tool used to gain votes, but also a means of transmitting or distorting information. This manipulation conveys an image of strength, shaping the behavior of citizens, bureaucrats, politicians, parties, unions and businesspeople to the benefit of the manipulators, increasing the scope for the manipulators to pursue their goals while in government and mitigating future challenges to their hold on power. Why Governments and Parties Manipulate Elections provides a general theory about what drives electoral manipulation and empirically documents global patterns of manipulation.