Saturday July 23rd 2016, IPSA World Congress, Istanbul
EIP and International IDEA invite paper proposals that seek to examine and explain the consequences of contentious elections and election-related conflict for regime stability and change.
Deadline: 1 December 2015.
When does such conflict strengthen processes of democratization, such as where an outcry over election fraud and corruption destabilizes the old regime? When does it trigger a backlash or coup d’état which sets back democratic transitions? And when does conflict fizzle out without achieving any substantive reforms or opposition gains? New research on these issues is welcome using multiple methods, including comparative cross-national time-series evidence and/or case-studies of historical processes within particular countries. Read more here.