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This book offers the first comparative monograph on the management of elections.
The book defines electoral management as a new, inter-disciplinary area and advances a realist sociological approach to study it. A series of new, original frameworks are introduced, including the PROSeS framework, which can be used by academics and practitioners around the world to evaluate electoral management quality. A networked governance approach is also introduced to understand the full range of collaborative actors involved in delivering elections, including civil society and the international community. Finally, the book evaluates some of the policy instruments used to improve the integrity of elections, including voter registration reform, training and the funding of elections. Extensive mixed methods are used throughout including thematic analysis of interviews, (auto-)ethnography, comparative historical analysis and, cross-national and national surveys of electoral officials.
This text will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners interested and involved in electoral integrity and elections, and more broadly to comparative politics, public administration, international relations and democracy studies.
Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license: https://tandfbis.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138682412_oachapter01.pdf
Chapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license: https://tandfbis.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138682412_oachapter04.pdf
List of contents
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
About the author
Toby S. James is Professor of Politics and Public Policy at the University of East Anglia, UK.
Summary
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.
