Full Description
Governments need rules, institutions, and processes to translate the will of the people into functioning democracies. Election laws are the rules that make that happen. Yet across the world various countries have crafted different rules regarding how elections are conducted, who gets to vote, who is allowed to run for office, what role political parties have, and what place money has in the financing of campaigns and candidates. The Routledge Handbook of Election Law is the first major cross-national comparative reference book surveying the electoral practices and law of the major and emerging democracies across the world. It brings together the leading international scholars on election law and democracy, examining specific issues, topics, or the regions of the world when it comes to rules, institutions, and processes regarding how they run their elections. The result is a rich volume of research furthering the legal and political science knowledge about democracies and the challenges they face. Scholars interested in election law and democracy, as well as election officials, will find the Routledge Handbook of Election Law an essential reference book.
Contents
1 Introduction
2 Democratic Theory and Election Law3 Representative Government and Elections
4 Voting Rights and Limitations
5 Electoral Management
6 Electronic Voting
7 Election Law in Advanced Democracies
8 Challenges in Electoral Integrity
9 Elections as Rituals
10 International Election Observation and Standards
11 Election Observation: Using Law and International Standards - A Practitioner's Perspective
12 Election Disputes, Complaints, and Appeals
13 Role of Money in Campaigns and Elections
14 Political Finance
15 Gender Quotas in Politics 16 Election Participation of Persons With Disabilities
17 Personalization of Elections: In Search of the Sound Conception
18 European Court of Human Rights and the Election Law
19 Post-Election Disputes in Europe20 The Election Law in Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania
21 Election Law in Turkey
22 Election Law in Latin America23 Contested Elections in Africa: The Roles of Courts in Electoral Processes
24 Election Law in India
25 Election Law in Malaysia
26 Legal Reforms for Electoral Integrity in Pakistan
27 Deep Election Law in South Korea
