Beyond Free and Fair: Monitoring Elections and Building Democracy (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)

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Beyond Free and Fair: Monitoring Elections and Building Democracy draws on worldwide experience since the mid-1980s to evaluate international election monitoring and domestic monitoring, and their contributions to democracy promotion and democratic change. In this book, Eric Bjornlund provides an overview of what election monitoring is, where it comes from, and how it is currently conducted, and he educes general lessons for democracy promotion. Bjornlund reports on actual practice, including case studies of particular election monitoring efforts and the author's own experience in the field, and on a few previous efforts to synthesize guidelines and lessons learned.

Case studies include Cambodia, Zimbabwe, the Philippines, and Indonesia, with the last especially providing an opportunity to show how domestic monitors can be supported by international monitors, funders, and advisers. Bjornlund also devotes a chapter to the influential election monitoring work of former president Jimmy Carter.

The author criticizes the tendency to view elections and election monitoring narrowly rather than as part of broader strategies to build democracy. He makes practical recommendations about how election monitoring should evolve in the future if it is to continue to contribute to genuine democratization.

Is Democracy Fair?: The Mathematics of Voting and Apportionment

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One of the most important things that citizens in democratic countries are asked to do as a part of their contribution to help preserve their democracy, is to vote to decide who from among them the majority wish to authorise to govern. Any country in which it is possible to exploit that process and deny persons of their Right to Vote, or allows persons other than the electors to cast their votes, puts the future of that democracy at serious risk. The author is satisfied that in many practising democracies, some persons, who are entitled to vote and try to exercise that right, are still being denied the opportunity to vote and have their votes counted to determine who is elected into government. The author has designed an automated electronic system that interacts directly with each person whose information is stored in its data base. This system can be used worldwide to address electoral problems but it can also be used for many other purposes to guarantee that only persons so authorised can carry out certain activities.

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