This rapid literature review explains the stages of an election cycle, and how donors provide support to electoral cycles. It draws mainly on policy guidance websites and papers due to the questi...
https://gsdrc.org/publications/donor-support-to-electoral-cycles/
In post-conflict environments, the international community plays an important role in supporting successful planning, delivery, and embedding of elections within a wider context of support to pol...
The 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq transformed Iraq’s political settlement by ejecting the previous elites from power and by initiating state-building processes with previously marginalised elite...
https://gsdrc.org/publications/who-are-the-elite-groups-in-iraq-and-how-do-they-exercise-power/
Political transitions from authoritarian rule to democracy can have a variety of outcomes. This rapid literature review looks at the factors affecting the success or failure of political transiti...
https://gsdrc.org/publications/factors-affecting-success-or-failure-of-political-transitions/
Well-timed elections can contribute to conflict resolution and help to consolidate a peace agreement or power-sharing deal among elites. But elections also have the potential to reignite hostilit...
https://gsdrc.org/publications/donor-support-for-post-conflict-elections/
There is a lack of applied thinking or rigorous empirical investigation into how donors and the international community can work with dominant party systems to promote more responsive state-soci...
https://gsdrc.org/publications/dominant-part-systems-and-development-programming/
There is limited literature specifically on the role of religious leaders in countering electoral and political violence, even less on ways in which to engage leaders in taking on such a role. Wh...
https://gsdrc.org/publications/religious-leaders-and-the-prevention-of-electoral-violence/
This review of empirical case studies in this report suggests that, rather than a single theory to explain democratic transitions, a combination is usually applicable. In all cases it was a mix ...
https://gsdrc.org/publications/factors-supporting-the-emergence-of-democracies/
A fundamental finding, widely shared among authors, is that it is not only the national level that matters, but also regional and local ones, in violent and non-violent conflicts. In recent and o...
https://gsdrc.org/publications/political-economy-of-conflicts-in-kyrgyzstan-since-the-2000s/
Voter registration is not just the technical implementation of an activity; it is a holistic political, administrative and practical process. Successful voluntary voter registration schemes tend ...
https://gsdrc.org/publications/voluntary-voter-registration/