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Democracy & electoral process
The section provides examples of the different types of electoral systems operating in the Asia Pacific, and practical information on best practice electoral processes to conduct fair and impartial elections.
Resources also focus on techniques to expand voter participation, and improve the political representation of women and marginalised sections of the community.
Democracy
- Nepal in transition: study on the state of democracy
- International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
- Governance reform in Papua New Guinea
- The new vision of local governance & the evolving roles of local governments
- Young democracies in the balance: lessons for the international community
- Measuring democratic governance
- Democracy at large
- Building knowledge societies: The renewal of democratic practices in knowledge societies
- Democratisation and political reform in the Asia-Pacific: Is there an Asian model of institutional design?
- Indonesia: fragile democracy news
- Political turbulence and institutional reform in Papua New Guinea
- Democratisation in Indonesia: an assessment report
- Democracy assessment country-specific reports
- Reconciliation after violent conflict
Electoral systems
Electoral issues
- Methodological guide on electoral assistance
- UN East Timor independent electoral certification team reports
- The implementation of quotas: Asian experiences
- Estimating the causal effects of policy information on voter turnout
- Dynamics of Inter-Party and Intra-Party Coalition Building: a nested game interpretation of legislator defection from a dominant political party in Japan
- Regionalism and redistribution in South Korea
- Election Process Information Collection project (EPIC)
- Administration and Cost of Elections project electronic publication
Expanding citizen participation
- Strengthening women's political participation in Indonesia
- Disability and elections
- Female representation: the global impact of quotas
- Changing the way the government works
- Understanding deliberativeness: bridging theory and practice
- Creating democratic surplus through citizens' assemblies
- Building bridges from community consultation to community engagement
- Champions of participation report
- Youth organisations in Sri Lanka: some dimensions and dynamics
- The electronic bureaucrat
- Representation, citizenship & the public domain in democratic decentralization
- Women & elections: a guide to promoting the participation of women in elections
- Building a public feedback mechanism
- Democracy at the local level handbook
- Gender and political participation
- Digital democracy in the 21st century city article
Resources, manuals, toolkits
- The ACE Electoral Knowledge Network
- Assessing the quality of democracy: practical guide
- Cultivating Christian civil society: fundamentalist Christianity, politics & governance in PNG
- The BRIDGE Project
- Monitoring election campaign finance: A handbook for NGOs
- World Movement for Democracy in Asia networks
- The Alliance for Democracy and Reform in Asia
- Reconciling liberal democracy and custom and tradition in SamoaÂ’s electoral system
- Uniting the fragments: Solomon Islands constitutional reforms