Dan Tokaji has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Edward Elgar volume on comparative election law edited by Jim Gardner). Here is the abstract: This chapter examines the institutions responsible for administering elections around the world and considers what law, … Continue reading
Category Archives: comparative election law
NYT reports, with the subhead: “More than 900 million people — over 10 percent of the world’s population — could head to the polls over several weeks. The government is committed to polling every voter, no matter how isolated.” … Continue reading
Just out today is the second edition of Graeme Orr’s important book, The Law of Politics. … Continue reading
NYT: Matthew G. Whitaker, the acting attorney general, was paid more than $1.2 million in the past few years by a group active in conservative politics that does not reveal its donors, according to financial disclosure statements released Tuesday and … Continue reading
The Star reports. … Continue reading
Kevin Pallister has written this new book: Democratic countries vary widely in the extent to which the administration of the electoral process facilitates voter participation, showing a great deal of variation in everything from voter registration to the casting of … Continue reading
From the Electoral Integrity Project. These are based on observer perceptions but I have a hard time understanding what “failed” means in this context. … Continue reading
Borden, Brown, and Butland: Later this year, British and Northern Irish voters will go to the polls to decide whether or not to remain in the European Union. This important decision could have significant consequences for the British economy and … Continue reading
Robert Boatright edits this new book from Michigan Press: For those who assume that increased regulation of political spending is inevitable in democratic nations, recent developments in U.S. campaign finance law appear puzzling. Is deregulation, exemplified by the U.S. Supreme … Continue reading
The following is the third of three guest posts by NYU’s Sam Issacharoff about his new book, Fragile Democracies: Recent American forays into the toppling of non-democratic regimes have stressed elections as the immediate goal, and often the only one. The … Continue reading
The following is the second of three guest posts by NYU’s Sam Issacharoff about his new book, Fragile Democracies: In 2010, the Colombian Constitutional Court struck down a proposed constitutional amendment that would have permitted President Alvaro Uribe to … Continue reading
The following is the first of three guest posts by NYU’s Sam Issacharoff about his new book, Fragile Democracies: I appreciate Rick’s invitation to say a few words about my book that came out over the summer, Fragile Democracies: … Continue reading
Globe and Mail: Voters in ridings across Canada reported confusion at the ballot box on Monday, with many attributing the issues to the Fair Elections Act, a controversial bill that ushered in many changes to the electoral process, from campaign … Continue reading
More political acid rain spreading from the US to Canada: Elections Canada has quietly warned staff to be on the lookout for increasingly sophisticated tactics aimed at discouraging — or even stopping — voters from casting a ballot. The advanced … Continue reading
Dentons has posted this analysis. … Continue reading
[Bumping to the top and updating] Now available: Fragile Democracies: Contested Power in the Era of Constitutional Courts (Cambridge Studies in Election Law and Democracy) Paperback – May 31, 2015 by Samuel Issacharoff (Author) Twenty-five years after the fall of … Continue reading
Release: Following on from its handbook on Political Finance, International IDEA has now released a policy brief on money in politics (www.idea.int/mip) with nine key recommendations for policy makers and other relevant stakeholders. Drawn from the findings of International IDEA’s … Continue reading