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Stuffing the Ballot Box: Fraud, Electoral Reform, and Democratization in Costa Rica - Couverture rigide

Lehoucq, Fabrice E.; Molina, Ivan

 
9780521810456: Stuffing the Ballot Box: Fraud, Electoral Reform, and Democratization in Costa Rica
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0521810450 ISBN 13 : 9780521810456
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2002

Synopsis

Stuffing the Ballot Box is a pioneering study of electoral fraud and reform. It focuses on Costa Rica, a country where parties gradually transformed a fraud-ridden political system into one renowned for its stability and fair elections by the mid-twentieth century. Lehoucq and Molina draw upon a unique database of more than 1,300 accusations of ballot-rigging to show that parties denounced fraud where electoral laws made the struggle for power more competitive. They explain how institutional arrangements generated opportunities for executives to assemble legislative coalitions to enact far-reaching reforms. This book also argues that nonpartisan commissions should run elections and explains why splitting responsibility over election affairs between the executive and the legislature is a recipe for partisan rancour and political conflict. Stuffing the Ballot Box will interest a broad array of political and social scientists, constitutional scholars, historians, election specialists and policy-makers interested in electoral fraud and institutional reform.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Stuffing the Ballot Box is a pioneering study of electoral fraud and reform. It focuses on Costa Rica, a country where parties gradually transformed a fraud-ridden political system into one renowned for its stability and fair elections by the mid-twentieth century. Lehoucq and Molina draw upon a unique database of more than 1,300 accusations of ballot-rigging to show that parties denounced fraud where electoral laws made the struggle for power more competitive. They explain how institutional arrangements generated opportunities for executives to assemble legislative coalitions to enact far-reaching reforms. This book also argues that nonpartisan commissions should run elections and explains why splitting responsibility over election affairs between the executive and the legislature is a recipe for partisan rancour and political conflict. Stuffing the Ballot Box will interest a broad array of political and social scientists, constitutional scholars, historians, election specialists and policy-makers interested in electoral fraud and institutional reform.

Revue de presse

'... the research is well designed and gives evidence of the authors' detailed study of the evolution of Costa Rican democracy.' Democratization

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521810450
ISBN 13 
9780521810456
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
296
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Avery
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