Evaluating Elections: A Handbook of Methods and Standards

by Alvarez, R. Michael; Atkeson, Lonna Rae; Hall, Thad E.

• ISBN13: 9781107027626
• ISBN10: 1107027624
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-11-30
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

In competitive and contested democratic elections, insuring integrity is critical. Evaluating Elections shows why systematic analysis and reporting of election performance is important and how data-driven performance management can be used by election officials to improve elections. The authors outline how performance management systems can function in elections and their benefits for voters, candidates, and political parties. Journalists, election administrators, and even candidates often ask whether recent elections were run well, whether there were problems in the administration of a particular state's elections, and how well elections were run across the country. The authors explain that such questions are difficult to answer because of the complexity of election administration and because there is currently no standard or accepted framework to assess the general quality of an election.

Table of Contents

Introduction: performance-based evaluation of election administration

The electoral ecosystem

Easily available data for performance evaluation

Measuring the experiences of voters

Measuring the performance of poll workers

Auditing the election ecosystem

Election observation

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