The Limits of Election Monitoring: What Independent Observation Can (and Can’t) Do.

With Susan Hyde. Foreign Affairs, June 29, 2011

Summary: When Tunisia and Egypt hold elections this fall, international election monitors will face pressure to validate the results as a proof that the Arab Spring is yielding democratic dividends. They must resist that pressure — both to maintain their independence and convince Egyptians and Tunisians of it.

The Project on International Election Monitoring is a global data collection and research project to study elections and election monitoring, which is a prominent form of democracy promotion worldwide.

This website contains publications and data from the project.

Click on the map to view the distribution of monitoring missions around the world.

The project is led by Judith Kelley, Duke University, and has been funded by the National Science Foundation and Duke University.