TY - BOOK AU - Kelley,Judith G. AU - Buntaine,Mark AU - Kolev,Kiril TI - Monitoring Democracy: When International Election Observation Works, and Why It Often Fails SN - 9780691152776 AV - JF1001 .K45 2017 U1 - 324.65 23 PY - 2012///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Election monitoring KW - Case studies KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Campaigns & Elections KW - bisacsh KW - Cold War KW - IGOs KW - NGOs KW - civil rights KW - democracy promotion KW - democracy KW - domestic governance KW - domestic political process KW - domestic politics KW - domestic potential KW - election cheating KW - election monitoring KW - election monitors KW - election patterns KW - election quality KW - elections KW - electoral cheating KW - electoral process KW - fairness KW - freedom KW - global governance KW - good electoral practices KW - governments KW - honesty KW - individual elections KW - international community KW - international election monitoring KW - international institutions KW - international leaders KW - international leverage KW - international monitors KW - international organizations KW - international politics KW - international standards KW - media organizations KW - monitoring efforts KW - monitoring information KW - monitoring organizations KW - monitoring process KW - monitoring KW - monitors KW - nonrandom intervention KW - organizational delegation KW - political conditionality KW - political rights KW - politicians KW - politics KW - qantitative data KW - recommendations KW - reinforcement KW - risky irregularities KW - safer irregularities KW - shadow market KW - skeptics KW - stability KW - transnational actors N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Tables --; Preface --; Abbreviations --; Part I --; Chapter 1. Introduction --; Chapter 2. Th e Rise of a New Norm --; Chapter 3. The Shadow Market --; Chapter 4. What Influences Monitors' Assessments? --; Chapter 5. Do Politicians Change Tactics to Evade Criticism? --; Part II --; Chapter 6. International Monitors as Reinforcement --; Chapter 7. Are Monitored Elections Better? --; Chapter 8. Long- Term Effects --; Conclusion: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly --; Appendix A: Data Description --; Appendix B: Statistical Supplement to Chapter 3 --; Appendix C: Statistical Supplement to Chapter 4 --; Appendix D: Statistical Supplement to Chapter 7 --; Appendix E: Case Summaries --; Notes --; References --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 elections in a variety of countries. But when more organizations join the practice without uniform standards, are assessments reliable? When politicians nonetheless cheat and monitors must return to countries even after two decades of engagement, what is accomplished? Monitoring Democracy argues that the practice of international election monitoring is broken, but still worth fixing. By analyzing the evolving interaction between domestic and international politics, Judith Kelley refutes prevailing arguments that international efforts cannot curb government behavior and that democratization is entirely a domestic process. Yet, she also shows that democracy promotion efforts are deficient and that outside actors often have no power and sometimes even do harm. Analyzing original data on over 600 monitoring missions and 1,300 elections, Kelley grounds her investigation in solid historical context as well as studies of long-term developments over several elections in fifteen countries. She pinpoints the weaknesses of international election monitoring and looks at how practitioners and policymakers might help to improve them UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400842520?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400842520 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400842520.jpg ER -