Many elections confront challenges in meeting international standards of electoral integrity, including in established democracies such as…
Book abstract: Over the past two decades public accountability has become not only an icon in political, managerial, and administrative…
Many malpractices generate flawed elections which fail to meet international standards of electoral integrity, including issues such as…
Book abstract: How do individual Africans view competitive elections? How do they behave at election time? What are the implications of new…
Can protests cause political change, or are they merely symptoms of underlying shifts in policy preferences? We address this question by…
Drawing upon theories of the diffusion of global norms, this study addresses two issues: is there a shared consensus among experts about…
A rapidly-growing research agenda shared by scholars and applied policy analysts is beginning to explore three questions: when do elections…
Professor Burns reflects on recent Supreme Court decisions dealing with voting rights and same-sex marriage.
We investigate the impact of the diffusion of high-speed Internet on different forms of political participation, using data from Italy. We…