na INLIS000000000009232 20221025095709 0010-0520009232 221025 | | eng 978-0801880506 eng 324.65 324.65 BJO b Bjornlund, Eric Beyond free and fair : monitoring elections and building democracy / Eric Bjornlund Washington, D.C., 2004 xxiii, 383 p. ; 23 cm. ; 23 cm. Beyond Free and Fair: Monitoring Elections and Building Democracy draws on worldwide experience since the mid-1980s to evaluate international election monitoring and domestic monitoring, and their contributions to democracy promotion and democratic change. In this book, Eric Bjornlund provides an overview of what election monitoring is, where it comes from, and how it is currently conducted, and he educes general lessons for democracy promotion. Bjornlund reports on actual practice, including case studies of particular election monitoring efforts and the author's own experience in the field, and on a few previous efforts to synthesize guidelines and lessons learned. Case studies include Cambodia, Zimbabwe, the Philippines, and Indonesia, with the last especially providing an opportunity to show how domestic monitors can be supported by international monitors, funders, and advisers. Bjornlund also devotes a chapter to the influential election monitoring work of former president Jimmy Carter. The author criticizes the tendency to view elections and election monitoring narrowly rather than as part of broader strategies to build democracy. He makes practical recommendations about how election monitoring should evolve in the future if it is to continue to contribute to genuine democratization. Election monitoring Bjornlund, Eric, 1958- 22437/MKRI-P/XI-2011 22438/MKRI-P/XI-2011 22438/MKRI-P/XI-2011 22437/MKRI-P/XI-2011 22437/MKRI-P/XI-2011 22438/MKRI-P/XI-2011