Details

Date: Wednesday 28 August 2013
Location: American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting,
Chicago, IL
Organizers: Pippa Norris and Richard Frank
Co-sponsors: The APSA Organized Section on Elections, Public Opinion and Voting Behavior (EPOVB), the IPSA Research Committee 23 Elections, Citizens and Parties (IPSA-ECP), and the Electoral Integrity Project

Synopsis

A rapidly-growing body of research by scholars and applied policy analysts is beginning to explore three core questions: when do elections meet international standards of electoral integrity? When do they fail to do so? And what can be done to mitigate these problems?

The evolving sub-field studying these issues, cutting across these conventional disciplinary boundaries, is characterized by its problem-oriented focus, global comparative framework, and use of pluralistic methods and analytical techniques. This includes research on problems of electoral integrity in the United States and other long established democracies, as well as in other regimes worldwide.A rapidly-growing body of research by scholars and applied policy analysts is beginning to explore three core questions: when do elections meet international standards of electoral integrity? When do they fail to do so? And what can be done to mitigate these problems?

The evolving sub-field studying these issues, cutting across these conventional disciplinary boundaries, is characterized by its problem-oriented focus, global comparative framework, and use of pluralistic methods and analytical techniques. This includes research on problems of electoral integrity in the United States and other long established democracies, as well as in other regimes worldwide.

Panels

10:00-10:30am Welcome and introduction: The Electoral Integrity Project

Pippa Norris and Richard Frank

10:30am-12:00pm Panel 1: Comparing electoral integrity

Chair: Richard Frank (University of Sydney)
1-1: Carolien van Ham (University of Twente) Why do elections fail? Explaining election integrity in third and fourth wave regimes
1-2: Masaaki Higashijima (Michigan State University) Beat me if you can: Electoral fraud and political business cycles in dictatorships
1-3: Karolina Gilas (Tribunal Electoral, Mexico) Electoral speech and campaign regulations in Mexico
1-4: Dalson Filho, Antônio Lavareda, and Enivald Carvalho da Rocha (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil) Campaign finance in comparative perspective
1-5: Ferran Martínez i Coma (University of Sydney) and Carolien van Ham (University of Twente) Can experts judge elections? Testing the validity of expert judgments for measuring election integrity
Discussant: Jan Teorell (Lund University) and Ferran Martínez i Coma (University of Sydney)

12:00-1:00pm Buffet lunch

1:00-2:25pm Panel 2: The consequences for stability and violence

Chair: Ferran Martínez i Coma (University of Sydney)
2-1: Katherine Collin (American University) Peacemaking referendums: Building consensus for state transformations
2-2: Yusaku Horiuchi (Dartmouth College) Danile Suryadarma, and Akhmad Susamto Unintended social consequences of democratization: Evidence from anatural experiment in Indonesia
2-3: Patrick Kuhn (Princeton University) Ethnic voting and electoral violence
2-4: Inken von Borzyskowski (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Sore losers? International condemnation and domestic incentives for post-election violence
2-5: Richard Frank (University of Sydney) The strategy behind electoral violence
Discussants: Carolien van Ham (University of Twente) and Richard Frank (University of Sydney)

2:30-3:50pm Panel 3: Administrative designs: Strengthening electoral integrity

Chair: Richard Frank (University of Sydney)
3-1: Jeffrey Conroy-Krutz (Michigan State University) and Devra Moehler (University of Pennsylvania) Faces on the ballot: Ballot design and vote choice and participation in Uganda
3-2: Ana Lúcia Henrique (Democratic Labour Party, Brazil) Citizens confidence or system’s reliability: What’s most important for electoral integrity?
3-3: Toby James (University of East Anglia) Centralizing Electoral Management: Lessons from the U.K.
3-4: Christopher Mann (Louisiana State University) and Rachel M. Sondheimer (US Military Academy at West Point) Reducing ballot errors and increasing voting in all-mail elections
3-5: Michael Martinez and James Keesling (University of Florida) Waiting to vote: An application of queueing theory to voter lines and voter turnout
3-6: Fredrik M. Sjoberg (New York University) Political parties and fraud: Micro-level analysis of randomly assigned partisan election officials
Discussant: André Blais (Université de Montreal)

4:00-5:30pm Panel 4: The consequences for political attitudes and behavior

Chair: Ferran Martínez i Coma (University of Sydney)
4-1: Thad Hall (University of Utah), Susan Hyde (Yale University), and Elizabeth Wellman (Yale University) Confidence in a climate of fraud: Ukraine 2004-11
4-2: Lawrence LeDuc (University of Toronto) Fair elections and voter choice
4-3: Olena Nikolayenko (Fordham University) Mass perceptions of electoral integrity and voting behavior in Azerbaijan
4-4: Alesia Sedziaka and Richard Rose (University of Arizona) Unfair elections and support for electoral protest
4-5: Pippa Norris (Harvard and Sydney Universities) Why mass perceptions of electoral integrity matter for political legitimacy
Discussant: Nikolay Marinov (Mannheim University)

5:30-6:45pm Drinks reception (for all participants)

7:00-9:00pm Dinner at a local restaurant (Mercat a la Planxa) by invitation for paper-givers, chairs, and discussants