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Unfortunately too often elections around the globe are deeply flawed or even fail. What triggers these problems? In this second volume of her trilogy on electoral integrity, Pippa Norris compares structural, international, and institutional accounts as alternative perspectives to explain why elections fail to meet international standards. The book argues that rules preventing political actors from manipulating electoral governance are needed to secure integrity, although at the same time officials also need sufficient resources and capacities to manage elections effectively. Drawing on new evidence, the study determines the most effective types of strategies for strengthening the quality of electoral governance around the world. With a global perspective, this book provides fresh insights into these major issues at the heart of the study of elections and voting behavior, comparative politics, democracy and democratization, political culture, democratic governance, public policymaking, development, international relations and conflict studies, and processes of regime change.
About the Author
PIPPA NORRIS is a comparative political scientist who has taught at Harvard for two decades. She is the McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and ARC Laureate Fellow and Professor of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney.
Recent honors include award of the 2011 Johan Skytte prize in political science, with Ronald Inglehart, the 2011 Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellowship, a 'special recognition' award by the UK Political Science Association, and a Doctor honoris causa by the University of Edinburgh.
Her research compares public opinion and elections, democratic institutions and cultures, gender politics, and political communications in many countries worldwide. She is currently engaged in a major new project, www.electoralintegrityproject.com .
A well-known public speaker and prolific author, she has published almost forty books. This includes a series for Cambridge University Press: A Virtuous Circle: Political Communications in Postindustrial Societies (2000, winner of the 2006 Doris A. Graber award for the best book in political communications) , Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty and the Internet Worldwide (2001) , Democratic Phoenix: Political Activism Worldwide (2002) and Rising Tide: Gender Equality and Cultural Change Around the Globe (with Ronald Inglehart, 2003) , Electoral Engineering: Voting Rules and Political Behavior (2004) , Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide (with Ronald Inglehart, 2004, winner of the Virginia Hodgkinson prize from the Independent Sector) , Radical Right: Voters and Parties in the Electoral Market (2005) , Driving Democracy: Do power-sharing institutions work? (2008) and Cosmopolitan Communications: Cultural Diversity in a Globalizing World (2009, with Ronald Inglehart) , Democratic Deficit: Critical Citizens Revisited (2011) , and Making Democratic Governance Work: The Impact of Regimes on Prosperity, Welfare and Peace (Cambridge University Press 2012) . Her latest book under development is Why Electoral Integrity Matters.
Other authored or coauthored books include On Message (1999) , Electoral Change Since 1945 (1997) , Political Recruitment (1995) , British By-elections (1990) , Politics and Sexual Equality (1986) . Edited books include Britain Votes 2005 (co-edited with Christopher Wlezien, 2005) , Framing Terrorism (2003) , Britain Votes 2001 (2001) , Critical Citizens (1999) , Critical Elections (1999) , The Politics of News (1998, 2nd edition 2007) , Elections and Voting Behaviour (1998) , Britain Votes 1997 (1997) , Women, Media and Politics (1997) , Politics and the Press (1997) , Passages to Power (1997) , Comparing Democracies (1996, 2nd ed. 2002, 3rd edition 2009) , Women in Politics (1996) , Different Voices, Different Lives (1994) , Gender and Party Politics (1993) , British Elections & Parties
