Determining whether an election has met international standards is a pressing issue for both practitioners and scholars. An important new study aims to systematize the assessment of electoral integrity.
About the Authors
Pippa Norris
Pippa Norris is the Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and ARC Laureate Fellow and professor of government and international relations at the University of Sydney.
Vicente Fox’s victory in Mexico’s July 2000 presidential election revealed the fundamental changes that had been taking place under the veil of governmental continuity.
After a long and bloody civil conflict, Burundi has established a new democratic regime. Does its tenuous but hopeful example hold lessons that might help its troubled neighbors?
