Comparative Electoral Management: Performance, Networks and Instruments

ISBN-13: 9781032086422 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 336 str.

Toby S. James

Opis

This book offers the first comparative monograph on the management of elections. It defines electoral management as a new, inter-disciplinary area and advances a realist sociological approach to study it.

Spis treści

PART I

Foundations

1 Introduction

2 A realist sociological approach

PART II

Performance

3 Existing concepts and evidence

4 Evaluating electoral management performance: the PROSeS framework

PART III

Networks

5 Electoral management governance networks

6 UK electoral management governance networks

7 Comparative electoral management governance networks

8 International electoral management governance networks

PART IV

Instruments

9 Voter registration reform

10 Centralisation

11 Training and human resource practices

12 Austerity and financial investment in electoral management

PART V

Looking forward

13 Conclusions

O autorze

Toby S. James is Professor of Politics and Public Policy at the University of East Anglia, UK.