R. Michael Alvarez, Lonna Rae Atkeson, Thad E. Hall

Evaluating Elections

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how the tools of public management and policy evaluation can generate the data to improve elections.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 428g
• ISBN-13: 9781107027626
• ISBN-10: 1107027624
• Artikelnr.: 36125644

Autorenporträt

R. Michael Alvarez is Professor of Political Science at the California Institute of Technology and Co-Director of the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project. Alvarez is a Fellow of the Political Methodology Society and is co-editor of the journal Political Analysis. He co-authored Electronic Elections: The Perils and Promise of Digital Democracy (with Thad E. Hall, 2010) and Point, Click, and Vote: The Future of Internet Voting (with Thad E. Hall, 2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: performance-based evaluation of election administration
1. The electoral ecosystem
2. Easily available data for performance evaluation
3. Measuring the experiences of voters
4. Measuring the performance of poll workers
5. Auditing the election ecosystem
6. Election observation.

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Introduction: performance-based evaluation of election administration; 1. The electoral ecosystem; 2. Easily available data for performance evaluation; 3. Measuring the experiences of voters; 4. Measuring the performance of poll workers; 5. Auditing the election ecosystem; 6. Election observation.

Rezensionen

'Ten years after the passage of the Help America Vote Act, this book offers a refreshing, practical, and constructive approach to evaluating elections and collecting data that can lead to increased integrity, greater transparency, and better overall accountability of our electoral process.' Dean C. Logan, Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, Los Angeles County, California