In recent decades, governments and NGOs--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.
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9781400842520
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2013
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Princeton University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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