This Guide is designed to offer insights into the critical elements that shape systems of good local governance in the South Caucasus region.
It also serves as a tool for local decision-makers and practitioners as they seek to learn more about models and practices of local democracy, particularly from an international comparative perspective.
How does a newly democratized nation constructively address the past to move from a divided history to a shared future?
How do people rebuild coexistence after violence?
This Handbook presents a range of tools that can be, and have been, employed in the design and implementation of reconciliation processes. Most of them draw on the experience of people grappling with the problems of past violence and injustice.
This report is the first in a series of reports on regional experiences with quota implementation.
It provides information about the use of gender quotas as an instrument to increase women’s political representation in Asia, and to show that they can and are being applied successfully. The report includes case studies from India, East Timor, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Indonesia.
What constitutes a fair electoral system and a fair election? What are the guiding principles for reviewing electoral legislation?
This document sets out the basic legal components governing elections for the purpose of reviewing, drafting or amending electoral legislation. It aims to contribute to promoting uniformity, reliability, consistency, accuracy as well as professionalism in elections.
This study from 2002 was one of the first to use International IDEA’s State of Democracy Assessment Framework.
The Framework is different from other methodologies because its assessments are led and owned by local actors, and move away from the practice of ranking democratic performance and making external judgements.
This Handbook, originally published in 2002 and now out of print, is a robust guide to assessing the quality of democracy and human rights. It introduces an easy-to-use and universal methodology for assessing the condition of democracy in any country, or its progress in democratization.
International IDEA's first Handbook, Electoral System Design was published in 1997, with a second edition in 2002.
International IDEA’s Voter Turnout Database provides updated and reliable information about voter turnout from around the world. This report includes statistics from more than 1,600 parliamentary and presidential elections in over 170 countries held between the end of World War II and 2002.
At the start of the 21st century, there is a dramatic revival in emphasis on local democracy.
Democratization in Indonesia: An Assessment is not simply a report. It is both a product and a tool.
It is a product in the sense that it is the outcome of a dialogue in which a broad range of Indonesians participated. They represent civil society, academics, politicians, policymakers, the media, and women’s and inter-faith organizations.
This report discusses the problem of low youth voter turnout internationally, explores its causes and suggests practical ways to raise young people’s interest and participation in politics. It includes statistical illustrations, graphics and samples of posters and voter materials from around the world.
This Code of Conduct assumes that governments, parties, organizations and individuals are each committed to multiparty pluralism and the democratic process.
The end-game of violent conflict is perhaps the most difficult phase of transformation in a hugely difficult process.
In that phase, parties need two overall aids. They need to be able to avail themselves of the most effective and appropriate dialogue process to facilitate their negotiations; and they then need to successfully negotiate a sustainable settlement by putting in place effective and appropriate democratic structures and political institutions.
The original edition of Women in Parliament: Beyond Numbers, published in 1998, was produced as part of International IDEA’s work on women and political participation.
Since its release, the picture regarding women’s political participation has slowly changed. Overall, the past decade has seen gradual progress with regard to women’s presence in national parliaments.
This Code of Conduct is designed to assist election administrators by providing general guidelines for their work.
The Melbourne Forum on Constitution-Building in Asia and the Pacific is jointly organized by International IDEA and the Constitution Transformation Network at Melbourne Law School.
The international community is observing the International Day of Democracy at a time when the magnitude, implications and gravity of the global crisis brought about by the pandemic are becoming increasingly patent. But so are also the lessons we are learning from current experience that can guide the recovery and serve, in the words of the UN Secretary General, to “build back better”. A central element of these lessons is that the quality and sustainability of the recovery will d
La conferencia busca establecer un marco global y regional de observación sobre el estado y desafíos democráticos contemporáneos. Esta conferencia forma parte del ciclo de eventos complementarios al Diplomado en Gestión Parlamentaria que coordina IDEA Internacional en Bolivia.
The Department of Political Affairs of the African Union Commission (AUC) and the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) are embarking on a continental project on ‘Sustainable Governance Response to COVID-19 in Africa: A human security approach’.
In 2015, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly adopted unanimously the ambitious 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that comprises of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including Goal 16’s promise of peaceful, just, and inclusive societies.
