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A Framework for the Study of Election Management Quality Professor, Dr Jørgen Elklit, Denmark, Conference on the ” Measuring Democracy” -project Boston, 23-24 May 2009. The Electoral Process.
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A Framework for the Study of Election Management Quality Professor, Dr Jørgen Elklit, Denmark, Conferenceon the ”Measuring Democracy”-project Boston, 23-24 May 2009
The Elklit/Reynolds Framework for AssessingElection and Election Management Quality(Democatization, 2005; IPU, 2005): • 54 different indicators are used to assess performance quality in the 11 steps of the electoral process by a panel of domestic and foreign expert assessors. • Measurement results for each step is weighted according to perceived importance for established and fledgling democracies, respectively • Results are published, so that they can be scrutinized and discussed by others (for transparency’s sake and to reduce measurement errors) • Mistakes are corrected and results re-calculated before final publication
Is it OK to allocatedifferentweigths to different steps? And to do it differently to differentcategories of political regimes?3: Essential factors (necessary?) 2. Important factors1. Desirable factors
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