Schaffer reveals how tinkering with the electoral process, even with the best of intentions, can easily damage democratic ideals.

From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe the world has witnessed a rising tide of contentious elections ending in heated partisan debates, court challenges, street protests

The book is the first in a planned trilogy by Pippa Norris on Challenges of Electoral Integrity to be published by Cambridge University Press. Unfortunately too

Money is essential to the functioning of electoral politics, yet regulating its appropriate use raises complex and controversial challenges in countries around

Too often, elections around the globe are, unfortunately, deeply flawed or even fail. What triggers these problems? In this second volume of her trilogy on elec