In elections around the world, large numbers of voters are influenced by promises or threats
that are contingent on how they vote. Recently, the political science literature has made …

This interdisciplinary Research Agenda contains state-of-the-art surveys of the field of
corruption and points towards an agenda for future research. This comprehensive work …

In recent decades, governments and NGOs--in an effort to promote democracy, freedom,
fairness, and stability throughout the world--have organized teams of observers to monitor …

This book shows that the third wave of democracy has been accompanied by a worldwide
wave of opposition-initiated, election-related protests. Such electoral protests result from a …

This article investigates the relationship between international election observation, election
fraud, and post-election violence. While international electoral missions could in principle …

Today a general mood of pessimism surrounds Western efforts to strengthen elections and
democracy abroad. If elections are often deeply flawed or even broken in many countries …

The international election monitoring regime has become considerably more complex in the
twenty-first century. Although the number of organizations engaged in high-quality election …

Proponents of democratization often claim that liberal institutions have a palliative effect on
the level of conflict within societies. Critics, however, suggest that the instruments of …

Prior research has sought to understand the rise of election observers and their
consequences for outcomes such as fraud, protest, and violence. These studies are …

The key to the impact of international election support is credibility; credible elections are
less likely to turn violent. So argues Inken von Borzyskowski in The Credibility Challenge, in …