Sarah Birch

Electoral Malpractice

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Produktbeschreibung

Electoral Malpractice shows how this phenomenon might be reduced by means of a variety of strategies designed to raise the cost of electoral manipulation by increasing the ability of civil society and international actors to monitor and denounce it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780199606160
• ISBN-10: 0199606161
• Artikelnr.: 34157511

Autorenporträt

Sarah Birch specialises in the comparative study of electoral institutions as well as the role of ethical misconduct in politics. She is a Reader in Politics at the University of Essex.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* 1: Introduction
* 2: Defining Electoral Integrity and Electoral Malpractice
* 3: Typologies and Measurements of Electoral Malpractice
* 4: The Strategic Manipulation of Elections
* 5: The Manipulation of Electoral Institutions
* 6: The Manipulation of Vote Choice
* 7: The Manipulation of Electoral Administration
* 8: Prospects for Reform
* 9: Conclusion
* Appendix I: Data Sources and Variable Construction
* Appendix II: International Legal Instruments Relating to Electoral
Conduct
* Appendix III: Methodology for the Construction of the Index of
Electoral Malpractice
* References
* Index