Author

Publication

2011 - Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

61,250 words, Guess

Page Count

245 pages

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Classifications

  • DDC324.6/5
  • LCCJF1001 .H93 2011
  • LCCJF1001.H93 2011

Description

Cowinner of the International Studies Association?s Chadwick F. Alger Prize, Winner of the American Political Science Association?s Comparative Democratization Section Best Book Award, and Cowinner of the Yale University MacMillan Center?s Gustav Ranis International Book Prize. Why did election monitoring become an international norm? Why do "pseudo-democrats" (undemocratic leaders who present themselves as democratic) invite international observers, even when they are likely to be caught manipulating elections? Is election observation an effective tool of democracy promotion, or is it simply a way to legitimize electoral autocracies? This book uses cross-national data on election observations since 1960 and case studies of Armenia, Indonesia, Haiti, Peru, Togo, and Zimbabwe to explain international election monitoring with a new theory of international norms.

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Other Editions

  • The pseudo-democrat's dilemma: why election observation became an international normCornell University Press2011-01-01

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