From late 2010 through 2011, popular uprisings toppled authoritarian regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya. In each country, a key component…
Money is essential for electoral politics yet its use and abuse often raises problems of graft, corruption, and cronyism. To throw new…
Several years after the Arab Spring began, democracy remains elusive in the Middle East. The Arab Spring that resides in the popular…
In many countries, polling day ends with disputes about ballot-box fraud, corruption, and flawed registers. Which claims are legitimate?…
In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, democracy in the Arab world seems farther away today than at any point in the last 25 years, leaving…
We investigate the relationship between political networks, weak institutions, and election fraud during the 2010 parliamentary election in…