Advancing Electoral Integrity

Pippa Norris is McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at Harvard University. Richard W. Frank is Research Associate at the University of Sydney. Ferran Martinez i Coma is Research Associate at the University of Sydney.

• List of tables and figures ; Preface and acknowledgments ; Notes about contributors ; Introduction ; 1. Introduction: Challenges of Electoral Integrity, Pippa Norris ; When do elections fail? Standards and evidence ; 2. Assessing Elections, Avery Davies-Roberts and David J. Carroll ; 3. Methods and Evidence, Pippa Norris, Jorgen Elklit and Andrew Reynolds ; 4. Expert Judgments, Ferran Martinez i Coma and Richard W. Frank ; 5. Election Monitoring, Ursula Daxecker and Gerald Schneider ; Do Institutions Matter? Managing elections ; 6. Constitutions and Election Management, Svitlana Chernykh, Zachary Elkins, James Melton and Tom Ginsburg ; 7. Electoral Management in Central America, Antonio Ugues, Jr. ; 8. Election Management in Britain, Toby S. James ; 9. Investing in Electoral Management, Alistair Clark ; Does lack of integrity undermine legitimacy? ; 10. EMB Performance and African Perceptions of Electoral Integrity, Nicholas N. Kerr ; 11. Electoral Integrity and Democratic Legitimacy in Africa, Robert Mattes ; 12. Electoral Trust in Latin America, Arturo Maldonado and Mitchell Seligson ; 13. American Attitudes towards Election Fraud, Thad E. Hall and Charles Stewart ; Conclusions: What Is To Be Done? Policy Interventions ; 14. Lessons From the Ground: What Have We Learnt? What Do We Do Next? Roundtable Discussion with Eric Bjornlund, David Carroll, Staffan Darnolf, Annette Fath-Lihic, Aleida Ferreyra, Betilde Munoz-Pogossian, Pippa Norris, and Chad Vickery ; Index

The strength of this volume is its inclusion of both practitioners and scholars and its connection to the Electoral Integrity Index, a real world effort to improve how we think about and assess election quality and - ultimately - political legitimacy. It provides an invaluable set of perspectives for students, scholars and policy makers alike who want to think about what can be done to improve elections around the world.