Evaluating elections: a handbook of methods and standards
This book explores how the tools of public management and policy evaluation can generate the data to improve elections.
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- Full title :Evaluating elections : a handbook of methods and standards / R. Michael Alvarez, Lonna Rae Atkeson, Thad Hall.
Summary
This book explores how the tools of public management and policy evaluation can generate the data to improve elections.
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- Publication Date:2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge [England]
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (1 recurso electrónico.)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1139782967, 9781139782968, 9781139226547, 1139226541, 9781139779975, 1139779974
- oclc:on1127451688
- Dewey Decimal:324.6/5
Table of Contents
Cover -- Evaluating Elections: A Handbook of Methods and Standards -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Performance-Based Evaluation of Election Administration -- Performance Measurement in Government and the Private Sectors -- Goals of Performance Measurement in Elections -- Elections Are about Data -- Collection, Transparency, and Openness -- This Is Not a Democracy Index -- From Indexes to Performance-Based Management -- Our Book in Brief -- 1 The Electoral Ecosystem -- Election Observation -- Election Forensics -- Legal Analysis -- Residual Votes -- Postelection Audits -- Voter Surveys -- Poll Worker Surveys -- Incident Reports -- Improving Performance: One Measure Does Not Work -- The New Mexico Example -- Cuyahoga County Example -- Improving the Ecosystem -- Conclusions -- 2 Easily Available Data for Performance Evaluation -- The Residual Vote -- Provisional Ballots: Multiple Metrics -- Incident Reports and Poll Worker Feedback -- Voter Registration Databases -- Lost Votes and Metrics for Policy Change -- Moving from Data to Performance-Based Management -- Using Performance Data for Election Improvement -- Conclusions -- 3 Measuring the Exp…
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