An interesting and somehow groundbreaking paper about disputed elections in presidential democracies has won this year’s IDEA/EIP award for the best graduate student paper on electoral integrity. The International Institute for [...]
The Americas
Nearly 90% of the world’s countries has set the minimum voting age at 18. However, according to some analysts “momentum is building around the world to lower the voting age [...]
Mexican voters headed to the polls on Sunday June 7th to vote for 500 seats in the lower house of Congress (Chamber of Deputies), nine of 31 governorships, 641 federal [...]
The UNDP has launched the Global Programme for Electoral Cycle Support (GPECS), a program to sensitize and train indigenous communicators and journalists in electoral cycle dynamics and on new information [...]
On November 30, Uruguayans will head back to the polls to elect a successor to Jose “Pepe” Mujica. During the first round, Tabare Vazquez, candidate for the Broad Front, received 1,134,187 [...]
This year, approximately 1.5 billion people have elected their representatives in 96 elections held in five continents. That’s the equivalent of 21% of the world population. Asia, a continent with 4.427 [...]
The results of the most recent Bolivian national elections, held on October 12, undoubtedly represent a milestone in the long-standing worldwide struggle for gender equality. As a result of the election, [...]
German Cardoso, President of the Chamber of Deputies of Uruguay and a representative of the city of Maldonado, recently visited the Spanish Congress to learn about electronic voting. It is important to point out that the Uruguayan parliament is [...]
