Electoral Integrity and Political Regimes
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 organised 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, democratisation and autocracy.
Holly Ann Garnett is based at the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Her research confronts the challenge of strengthening electoral integrity around the globe by focusing on the design and practices of election management bodies.
Margarita Zavadskaya is based at the European University Institute in Fiesole, Italy, and European University at Saint Petersburg, Russia. Her research considers the political economy of authoritarian regimes and their persistence.
Routledge Studies in Elections, Democracy and Autocracy
Series editors: Pippa Norris, Harvard University, USA, and the University of Sydney, Australia, and Carolien van Ham, The University of New South Wales, Australia.
This series addresses the quality of elections, how and why electoral contests fall short of international standards, and the implications of flawed elections for democracy and autocracy. The series is published in association with the Electoral Integrity Project.
For more information on this series please visit: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Studies-in-Elections-Democracy-and-Autocracy/book-series/REDA
1 Election Administration and the Politics of Voter Access
Kevin Pallister
2 Electoral Rights in Europe
Advances and Challenges
Edited by Helen Hardman and Brice Dickson
3 Electoral Integrity and Political Regimes
Actors, Strategies and Consequences
Edited by Holly Ann Garnett and Margarita Zavadskaya
Electoral Integrity and Political Regimes
Actors, Strategies and Consequences
Edited by Holly Ann Garnett and Margarita Zavadskaya
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Sarah Birch is a Professor of Political Science at Kings College London. She has studied electoral conduct for over 20 years, and she is author of the 2011 monograph Electoral Malpractice.
Samuele Dominioni is a PhD candidate in International Relations and Political History at Sciences Po and IMT School for advanced studies. His research explores the international dimension of electoral frauds and malpractices with a focus, as case study, on the South Caucasus.
Holly Ann Garnett completed her PhD in political science at McGill University (Montreal, Canada). Her research examines how electoral integrity can be strengthened throughout the electoral cycle, including the role of election management bodies, voter registration, civic literacy, convenience voting measures and election technologies.
Grigorii V. Golosov is a Professor of Comparative Politics at the European University in Saint Petersburg. He is best known for his work on comparative methods, political parties, elections and electoral systems and Russian national and sub-national politics.
Sofia Jonsson is a PhD student at the Political Science Department at Gothenburg University. Her dissertation focuses on what role the state has in shaping the incentive structure of organised crime from a comparative perspective.
David Muchlinski is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Kings College London. He specialises in analysing political violence, including civil, electoral and ethnic violence; he also specialises in computational social science.
Gabriela da Silva Tarouco is a Professor of Political Science at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil. Her research focuses on electoral governance and party regulation in Latin America.
Margarita Zavadskaya is a PhD candidate at the European University Institute (Fiesole, Italy) and senior lecturer at the Department of Political Science and Sociology, European University at Saint Petersburg. Her research focuses on elections in non-democratic regimes, electoral malpractice and political behavior.
We wish to express our deep gratitude to the international team of scholars from the Electoral Integrity Project (EIP), an international research project at the University of Sydney and Harvard University, funded by the Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Award by the Australian Research Council under the leadership of Pippa Norris. We thank Pippa Norris, as well as team members Richard Frank, Ferran Martinez-I-Coma, Max Groemping, Andrea Abel van Es, and our fellow visiting researchers in 2014, Alessandro Nai, Norbert Kersting and Marco Valbruzzi for inspiring us to begin exploring the topics and questions studied in this volume. We are grateful for their encouragement and feedback on early drafts and proposals.
