Evaluating Elections - A Handbook of Methods and Standards

Informationen zum Autor R. Michael Alvarez is Professor of Political Science at the California Institute of Technology and Co-Director of the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project. Alvarez is a Fellow of the Political Methodology Society and is co-editor of the journal Political Analysis. He co-authored Electronic Elections: The Perils and Promise of Digital Democracy (with Thad E. Hall, 2010) and Point, Click, and Vote: The Future of Internet Voting (with Thad E. Hall, 2004). Klappentext This book explores how the tools of public management and policy evaluation can generate the data to improve elections. Zusammenfassung In a world of competitive and contested democratic elections! insuring the integrity of electoral conduct is critical. Evaluating Elections provides an overview of why the systematic analysis and reporting of election performance is important and how data-driven performance management can be used to give election officials tools to improve elections. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: performance-based evaluation of election administration; 1. The electoral ecosystem; 2. Easily available data for performance evaluation; 3. Measuring the experiences of voters; 4. Measuring the performance of poll workers; 5. Auditing the election ecosystem; 6. Election observation.

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• Authors: R. Michael Alvarez, R. Michael (California Institute of Techn Alvarez, R. Michael (California Institute of Technology) Alvarez, R. Michael Atkeson Alvarez, Lonna R. Atkeson, Lonna Rae Atkeson, Lonna Rae (University of New Mexico) Atkeson, Thad Hall, Thad E. Hall, Thad E. (University of Utah) Hall
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.11.2012
• EAN: 9781107653054
• ISBN: 978-1-107-65305-4
• No. of pages: 180
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education