Electoral Rights in Europe
From the perspective of a number of different social science disciplines, this book explores the ways in which the election of politicians can be made more fair and credible by adopting a human rights approach to elections. It discusses existing international standards for the conduct of elections and presents case studies relating to jurisdictions within Europe, especially those emerging from conflict or from an authoritarian past, which demonstrate how problems occur and can be addressed.
Significant advances have been achieved through the Council of Europes soft and hard law frameworks but the book demonstrates that much more needs to be done to ensure that these and other standards are fully adhered to and developed. This collection offers a fresh examination of electoral rights and practices and their impact on the quality of democracy by superimposing a human rights perspective on existing election theories derived from the literatures of law, political science and international relations.
This text will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners of electoral democracy and human rights, as well as those working in the areas of comparative politics and European politics.
Helen Hardman is Lecturer in Transformation and European Integration, CEES, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK.
Brice Dickson is Professor of International and Comparative Law at Queens University Belfast, UK.
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.
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
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Names: Hardman, Helen, editor. | Dickson, Brice, editor.
Title: Electoral rights in Europe : advances and challenges / edited by
Helen Hardman and Brice Dickson.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017. | Series:
Routledge studies in elections, democracy and autocracy ; 2 | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016057089| ISBN 9781138203914 (hardback) | ISBN
9781315470498 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Election lawEurope. | Civil rightsEurope.
Classification: LCC KJC5272 .E42 2017 | DDC 324.6094dc23
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Eszter Bodnr is an Assistant Professor at the Law School of University Etvs Lornd in Budapest, Hungary. She teaches constitutional law, electoral law and European constitutional law at the Department for Constitutional Law. She is a legal adviser at the Association of European Election Officials and a member of the Advisory Board in Constitutional Matters of the President of the Supreme Court. She graduated as a lawyer and worked at the Department of Constitutional Law in the Hungarian Ministry of Justice and in the Hungarian National Election Office. She obtained her PhD degree in constitutional law in 2013 with her thesis about the right to vote as a fundamental right.
Chemavon Chahbazian is currently Head of the Division on Election Observation and Interparliamentary Cooperation, Secretariat of the Parliamentary Assembly Council of Europe. From 1990 to 2001 he worked in the Parliament of Armenia as an Adviser and Chief Adviser on international parliamentary cooperation in the field of law and on how to adapt some foreign countries legislation for conditions in the new independent Armenian State. Since 2001 he has been working in the international secretariat of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Strasbourg. He has been in charge of organising PACE election observation missions and preparing draft reports in relation to the following countries: Georgia, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova and some countries in the Balkan region. He graduated from the Moscow University for Foreign Languages (Russian, French, English and International Law). He is also a graduate of the Strasbourg Robert Schuman University in the history of international relations and from the French Ecole Nationale dAdministration (foreign students section).
Olga Chernishova graduated in law from the Moscow State Lomonosov University (1995). She obtained an LLM in comparative constitutional law from the Central European University, Budapest (1995) and a PhD in law from the Moscow State Legal Academy (2005). She has been working as a lawyer since 1999 and since 2006 has been head of a legal division at the Registry of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. She is the author of publications on the European Courts practice, its organisation and reform, rapport between the Russian constitutional law and international human rights law, as well as on the situation of refugees and foreign nationals in Russia. Her works include Russia and the European Court of Human Rights: A Decade of Change/Essays in Honour of Anatoly Kovler (Wolf Legal Publishers, 2014), co-edited with M. Lobov; Russias Response to the European Court of Human Rights Systemic Findings: Words or Actions? in The UK and European Human Rights: A Strained Relationship? , eds K. Ziegler, L. Wicks and L. Hodson (Hart Publishing, 2015); and The Right to Life under Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights: Twenty Years of Legal Developments since McCann v. the United Kingdom/ Essays in Honour of Michael OBoyle (Wolf Legal Publishers, 2016), co-edited with L. Early, A. Austin and C. Ovey.
