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Democracy & electoral process
Last updated on
26 August 2008
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
- 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 Â?Asian modelÂ? 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
- Champions of participation report
- Youth organisations in Sri Lanka: some dimensions and dynamics
- The electronic bureaucrat
- Representation, citizenship & the public domain in democratic decentralization
- Deepening democracy and increasing popular participation in Vietnam
- Women & elections Â? 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
- Democracy and the information revolution
- Digital democracy in the 21st century city article
Resources, manuals, toolkits
- 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