Achieving the ideals of electoral democracy depends on well-run elections. Persistent
problems of electoral integrity in transitional and established democracies have prompted a …

Over 90 per cent of the world's states currently select their national leaders through
multiparty elections. However, in Africa the quality of elections still varies widely, ranging …

From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe the world has witnessed a rising tide of contentious elections
ending in heated partisan debates, court challenges, street protests, and legitimacy …

Holding elections has become a global norm. Unfortunately, the integrity of elections varies
strongly, ranging from “free and fair” elections with genuine contestation to “façade” …

Leveraging novel experimental designs and 2,160 months of Constituency Development
Fund (CDF) spending by legislators in Ghana, I examine whether and how fairer elections …

Expert surveys have been used to measure a wide variety of phenomena in political
science, ranging from party positions, to corruption, to the quality of democracy and …

Electoral integrity is increasingly being recognised as an important component of
democracy, yet scholars still have limited understanding of the circumstances under which …

The December 2011 legislative election was among the most fraudulent national elections
in Russia since the communist period. The fraud, however, was not evenly spread across …

Problems with election fraud and election integrity are of increasing concern in both
established and transitional democracies (Lehoucq, 2003; Alvarez et al., 2008, 2012; Birch …

Scholars have long been interested in investigating why and how ruling parties manipulate
elections in Africa and elsewhere. Despite the importance of such a subject, much remains …