A rapidly-growing research agenda shared by scholars and applied policy analysts is
beginning to explore three questions: when do elections meet standards of electoral …

Democratic societies are built around the principle of free and fair elections, and that each
citizen's vote should count equally. National elections can be regarded as large-scale social …

The financial cost of corruption has recently been estimated at more than 5 per cent of global
GDP. Yet, despite the widespread agreement that corruption is one of the most pressing …

This book provides the first comprehensive treatment of Benford's law, the surprising
logarithmic distribution of significant digits discovered in the late nineteenth century …

Several hundred studies have attempted to estimate the monetary cost arising from the
management and/or impacts of invasive alien species. However, the diversity of methods …

Most electoral fraud is not conducted centrally by incumbents but rather locally by a
multitude of political operatives. How does an incumbent ensure that his agents deliver fraud …

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 …

This contribution adds a new perspective to the debate on electoral integrity by asking how
electoral integrity affects the way in which election results translate into citizen attitudes …

One of most extensive allegations of vote manipulation in the 2020 presidential election
revolved around technology manufactured by Dominion Voting Systems. In particular, then …

The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred controversies related to whether countries manipulate
reported data for political gains. We study the association between accuracy of reported …