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Le scrutin fédéral du 10 juin 2007 a frappé les imaginations. L'ampleur des mouvements électoraux a été notable en Flandre, en Wallonie et à Bruxelles. Mais que s'est-il vraiment produit ce dimanche 10 juin 2007 dans le chef des électeurs et comment comprendre la structure du vote ? Pour approcher ces questions difficiles, le Centre d'étude de la vie politique de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) a réalisé une enquête « sortie des urnes » auprès de 3 000 électeurs bruxellois et wallons : cet ouvrage en présente les résultats. Ils sont déclinés et analysés à la lumière des approches classiques du comportement électoral et des divisions propres à la société belge. Les lignes de démarcations traditionnelles sont mises en évidence : clivages socio-économique et philosophique, positionnements sur les questions de société ou sur l'ouverture à l'autre. Leur validité est testée, de même que la structuration de l'électorat par rapport à ces lignes de démarcation. Des indicateurs classiques de distinction du comportement, comme le niveau de capital scolaire, sont aussi abordés pour mesurer leur pertinence et leur influence sur l'expression du vote. Mais des thématiques moins habituelles, plus nouvelles, sont aussi traitées : l'examen des transferts de voix d'une élection à l'autre, le comportement électoral d'un groupe de plus en plus important - l'électorat de confession musulmane - ou encore la configuration à Bruxelles, parent pauvre des études électorales en Belgique. Au final, l'ouvrage donne nombre d'indications permettant de comprendre les ressorts du vote dans l'espace francophone en Belgique et d'approcher ce qui s'est produit le 10 juin 2007 chez les électeurs.

Voting research. --- Election monitoring.

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"This book offers the first comparative monograph on the management of elections. The book defines electoral management as a new, inter-disciplinary area and advances a realist sociological approach to study it. A series of new, original frameworks are introduced, including the PROSeS framework which can be used by academics and practitioners around the world to evaluate electoral management quality. A networked governance approach is also introduced to understand the full range of collaborative actors involved in delivering elections, including civil society and the international community. Finally, the book evaluates some of the policy instruments used to improve the integrity of elections, including voter registration reform, training and the funding of elections. Extensive mixed methods are used throughout including thematic analysis of interviews, ethnography, comparative historical analysis; and, cross-national and national surveys of electoral officials. This text will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners interested and involved in electoral integrity and elections, and more broadly to comparative politics, public administration, international relations and democracy studies"--

Election monitoring. --- Elections --- Corrupt practices. --- Management. --- management --- corrupt practices --- election monitoring

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Elections provide a tremendous opportunity for national transformation and the pursuit of democratic practice. They can be a moment of national renewal. However, in most of Africa elections are often characterized by violent conflict as politicians seek to capture or maintain power through ethnic mobilization, propaganda and misrepresentation. Considering opportunities offered by information technology especially mobile phones and the discovery of extensive natural resources, Africa has an opportunity to significantly change the lives of ordinary citizens. But this transformation requires that

Youth and peace --- Elections --- Peace and youth --- Peace --- Election monitoring --- Election observation --- Monitoring, Election --- Poll watching --- Kenya --- Politics and government.

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The management of elections is increasingly generating impassioned debate in these East African nations - Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. The bodies that manage and conduct elections are, therefore, coming under intense citizen and stakeholder scrutiny for the manner in which they are composed, how they organise and perform their mandates, and the outcomes they achieve. The effectiveness of electoral management bodies (EMBs) has largely been influenced by the impact of political violence on election management reforms in East Africa. Even in countries where EMBs are the products of reforms initiated in the aftermath of violent disputes over elections, they still face enormous challenges in dealing with electoral disputes and anticipating election-related crises. Although changes to constitutions and the laws in these countries have sought to make EMBs independent and, therefore, more inclined to deliver free, fair and credible elections, there are many issues that determine their impartiality and their ability to allow for the aggregation and free expression of the will of the people. These shortcomings negatively impact on democracy. This volume assembles case studies on the capacity of EMBs in these five East African countries to deliver democratic and transparent elections.

Elections --- Election monitoring --- Election observation --- Monitoring, Election --- Poll watching --- Electoral politics --- Franchise --- Polls --- Political science --- Politics, Practical --- Plebiscite --- Political campaigns --- Representative government and representation

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Why did election monitoring become an international norm? Why do pseudo-democrats-undemocratic leaders who present themselves as democratic-invite international observers, even when they are likely to be caught manipulating elections? Is election observation an effective tool of democracy promotion, or is it simply a way to legitimize electoral autocracies? In The Pseudo-Democrat's Dilemma, Susan D. Hyde explains international election monitoring with a new theory of international norm formation. Hyde argues that election observation was initiated by states seeking international support. International benefits tied to democracy give some governments an incentive to signal their commitment to democratization without having to give up power. Invitations to nonpartisan foreigners to monitor elections, and avoiding their criticism, became a widely recognized and imitated signal of a government's purported commitment to democratic elections.Hyde draws on cross-national data on the global spread of election observation between 1960 and 2006, detailed descriptions of the characteristics of countries that do and do not invite observers, and evidence of three ways that election monitoring is costly to pseudo-democrats: micro-level experimental tests from elections in Armenia and Indonesia showing that observers can deter election-day fraud and otherwise improve the quality of elections; illustrative cases demonstrating that international benefits are contingent on democracy in countries like Haiti, Peru, Togo, and Zimbabwe; and qualitative evidence documenting the escalating game of strategic manipulation among pseudo-democrats, international monitors, and pro-democracy forces.

International relations. --- Democratization. --- Elections --- Election monitoring. --- Corrupt practices. --- Coexistence --- Foreign affairs --- Foreign policy --- Foreign relations --- Global governance --- Interdependence of nations --- International affairs --- Peaceful coexistence --- World order --- National security --- Sovereignty --- World politics --- Democratic consolidation --- Democratic transition --- Political science --- New democracies --- Election fraud --- Election law --- Election observation --- Monitoring, Election --- Poll watching --- Criminal provisions