Pseudo-Election Monitoring
May 17, 2016
Crackdowns on Citizen Election Monitors Reveal Authoritarian Fear
Guest blog post by Patrick Merloe, contributing author to the edited volume, Authoritarianism Goes Global: The Challenge to Democracy.Nonpartisan election monitoring, spanning over 100 countries, embodies a movement of millions...
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January 7, 2016
Venezuela and the Consequences of Shoddy Election Observation
Guest post by Christopher Sabatini. If the absence of protests or conflict on an election day is an indicator of success, then the success of the Union of South American Nations’...
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May 19, 2015
Azerbaijan’s Two Big Campaigns
The government of Azerbaijan is pursuing two big, interrelated campaigns. One of them is a relentless domestic effort against any independent voices who criticize the regime. The other is an...
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April 30, 2015
Muddying the Waters: How Authoritarians Erode Election Observation Standards
A fundamental tenet of democratic governance is the norm that government authority stems from the will of the people as expressed through free and fair elections, and, over time, norms...
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