Articles, Books & Congressional Testimony
Books and Book Chapters
Eric Bjornlund
Beyond Free and Fair: Monitoring Elections and Building Democracy
(Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, September 1, 2004)
“In this new book, Eric Bjornlund explores the history and evolution of international and domestic election monitoring …” (more)
Eric Bjornlund, Glenn Cowan and William Gallery
“Election Systems and Political Parties in Post-Conflict and Fragile States,” in Derick W. Brinkerhoff (ed.), Rebuilding Governance in Post-Conflict Societies and Fragile States: Emerging Perspectives, Actors, and Approaches (New York: Routledge, 2007)
“The dramatic global expansion of democracy and the growing acceptance of interventions to support democratic reform over the past 20 years have led to an extraordinary focus on the institution of elections. In countries around the world,”
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Eric Bjornlund
“Transition Elections as End or Means? Lessons for Democracy Assistance from Domestic Election Monitoring,” in McMahon and Sinclair, eds., Democratic Institution Performance (Praeger, 2002)
This chapter places domestic election monitoring in the context of the new industry of democracy assistance. It discusses how domestic monitoring can contribute to elections as both ends (particular events that are either “free and fair” or not) and means (catalysts for the longer-term process of building democratic practices, values and institutions). Through consideration of the monitoring of transition elections in Indonesia in 1999, the chapter considers how the international community might better aid democratization through its support of domestic election monitoring and, by implication, other foreign assistance programs.
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Melissa Estok, Neil Nevitte and Glenn Cowan
The Quick Count and Election Observation, (National Democratic Institute, 2002)
“A quick count is a powerful method for monitoring elections… This handbook is designed for civic activists, political party representatives and others who are systematically observing elections to protect their rights and to promote transparency and accountability in the process. It … gives a step-by-step explanation of how to organize an election observation effort from the planning stages through election day and afterwards.”
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Eric Bjornlund and David Timberman