You might also like

Availability alert

More about Monitoring Democracy

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 142 loyalty points

Book synopsis

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.

Book details

Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political structure & processes

• Full title: Monitoring Democracy
• Author: Kelley
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• EAN: 9780691152783
• ISBN: 0691152780
• ID: 04460040
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Weight: 504 g
• Dimensions: 154 × 235 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. March 2012

Trending among others

---

---

---