Supporting Elections Effectively: Principles and Practice of Electoral Assistance

Sammanfattning

Electoral assistance (EA) is meant to support democratic
development by strengthening key institutions, supporting a viable
environment for participation and ensuring the legitimacy of an
incoming government. Ideally, this facilitates other development
objectives such as health and economic progress, meets the
democratic aspirations of citizens, and enables national and regional
stability. For these reasons, electoral assistance has been an integral
part of international development and foreign policy......