Essays about: "election observers"
Found 4 essays containing the words election observers.
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1. How International Election Observers Impact Post-Election Events: The link between international observers, acceptance of results and post-election violence
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Since 1990, international election observers have been travelling the world to monitor and assess close to 1 500 elections in developing democracies. Although often championed as the primary tool of democracy promotion, little is still known about its immediate consequences. READ MORE
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2. Observing the Observers : A critical approach of problem representations in Policy of the EU EOM Final Reports
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : .... READ MORE
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3. Pending between Destructivity and Constructivity in Disagreements on Land Management in China -- A Case Study of the Wukan Protests
University essay from Institutionen för geovetenskaperAbstract : In the Chinese village Wukan, violence between the authorities and protesters took place when farmers resisted land transaction 2011. Wukan is one out of about ten thousand local protests annually in China, but unique in the modern Chinese history since it resulted in suspension of land transaction and the leaders of the protest where elected into the village committee, in an election which is considered by external observers as the most democratic in China. READ MORE
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4. Civil society and election monitoring as factors of the new political process in Russia
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The present thesis studies the monitoring of the 2012 Russian presidential elections and explores theoretical and empirical questions of the influence of domestic and international actors on the election process. The study of the election observation is one of the topics of the very large field of study on democratization and, more specifically, democracy-promotion and assistance; therefore in my research I am trying to answer the following questions: What were the possibilities and limitations for election observers in the Russian presidential election 2012? Were they different for domestic and international observers? In my research I am particularly interested in whether domestic actors, in the form of election observers, can increase the accuracy of information about elections and therefore increase the incentives for governments to hold clean elections (Hyde & Marinov 2012). READ MORE
