TY - BOOK ID - 80818014 TI - Evaluating elections : a handbook of methods and standards AU - Alvarez, R. Michael AU - Atkeson, Lonna Rae AU - Hall, Thad E. PY - 2013 SN - 9781139226547 9781107027626 9781107653054 9781139776936 1139776932 9781139782968 1139782967 1139226541 1107027624 1107653053 1139794337 1316090205 1107254779 1139779974 1283818035 1139778455 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Elections KW - Electoral politics KW - Franchise KW - Polls KW - Political science KW - Politics, Practical KW - Plebiscite KW - Political campaigns KW - Representative government and representation KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80818014 AB - 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. ER -