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Designing for Equality: Best-fit, medium-fit and non-favourable combinations of electoral systems and gender quotas
16 March 2012 | Electoral Systems, Governance and Gender, Civil SocietyDesigning for Equality: Best-fit, medium-fit and non-favourable combinations of electoral systems and gender quotas Today, the average proportion of...
CD-ROM Electoral System Design
19 April 2012 | Training Material, Civil SocietyCD-ROM Electoral System Design - Download Free of Charge Since 1997, the Handbook on Electoral System Design has been the cornerstone of...
The successful Ghana election of 2008 – a convenient myth? Ethnicity in Ghana’s elections revisited
22 November 2010 | Africa, Article / Working Paper, Democracy, Electoral Systems, Civil SocietyGhana’s 2008 elections have been hailed by national and international observers as a model for Africa. This perception has...
The power of proximity: strategic decisions in African Party Politics
22 November 2010 | Africa, Article / Working Paper, Electoral Systems, Political Parties, Civil SocietyThere is increasing availability of survey data which has enabled researchers to rethink and challenge the notion...
The frameworks for elections in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, the Palestinian Authority and Syria
22 November 2010 | Arab States, Electoral Systems, Report, Civil SocietyIt is generally assumed that elections in the Southern Mediterranean largely lack credibility, being managed events used by political elites to...
Elections and accountability in South Africa
22 November 2010 | Africa, Electoral Systems, Political Parties, Report, Civil SocietyAllowing citizens to decide whether or not to extend a government’s tenure through regular elections is the principal...
Final Report on the Presidential and Provincial Council elections in Afghanistan - 2009
26 November 2010 | Arab States, Democracy, Electoral Systems, Report, Inter-Governmental OrganizationFollowing an invitation from the Afghan government, the OSCE Permanent Council mandated the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and...
Using International Law to Assess Elections
16 June 2010 | Article / Working Paper, Electoral Systems, Europe and CIS, Civil SocietyThis article provides an overview of existing obligations for democratic elections in Public International Law (PIL), and links these obligations...
Uganda: The Management of Elections
06 October 2010 | Africa, Civil Society, Corruption, Electoral Systems, Political Parties, Civil SocietyWith Uganda's upcoming multiparty elections to be held in February 2011, there is an added debate around legitmate electoral processes...
OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission Final Report on the Parliamentary Elections in the Republic of Tajikistan
02 December 2010 | Electoral Systems, Europe and CIS, Report, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThe parliamentary elections on February 28, 2010 failed to meet many key OSCE commitments contained in the OSCE 1990 Copenhagen Document and...