Worldwide Elections Guide: Elections of the World
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Global Sites
The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES): a collaborative program of cross-national research in over fifty states, conducts research on the effects of electoral institutions on citizens’ attitudes and behavior, and democratic institutions across different political regimes.
CNN World Election Watch: provides information on parties and election results of countries. Searchable by individual country.
Elections around World: provides election information on presidents, political parties, parliaments, and related political web sites around the world.
Election Resources on the Internet: provides the detailed regional and international election statistics and other international election resources.
Elections and Electoral Systems around world: a collection of election related web sites and links to each country’s major election web sites.
International Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA): an intergovernmental organization, provides comprehensive political participation statistics since 1945 including total vote, voting age, percentage of voters to registered, etc.
International Foundation Election System (IFES): IFED, a non-profit NGO, has been part of the electoral process in over 100 countries lending its expertise to supporting the four pillars of democracy. Provides election results, dates, and related web sites.
The Keele Guide: links to various electoral system web sites, information on electoral data and election results, arranged by country.
Lijphart Elections Archive:
The archive, housed at the
Psephos: provides a comprehensive 167 countries’ electoral information and latest international electoral news.
Parline database: The database, searchable by each county, region and sub-region, provides documents of each country’s parliamentary structure.
Political Studies Association: provides a collection of over 6,000 links to political information sources on the internet.
Africa
Elections in Africa: The past ten years: A working paper on African elections from the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Note: access restricted to UCSD IP address.
Elections –Africa: Political Studies Association web site includes information on electoral systems, election results and links to each country’s electoral commission web sites.
Asia
Central Asia, Caucasus Election Watch: provides information and analysis about political, economic, environmental and social developments in the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as in Russia, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia.
Elections – Asia: Political Studies Association web site offers information on electoral systems, election results and electoral commission web sites by country.
Electoral Systems in Asia: provides political data including presidential and parliamentary election results and individual country profiles.
Europe
Electoral Results in Europe: listed by country, contains information on electoral results, political parties in European countries.
European Elections Monitor: provides national election results, analysis and web sites to political parties.
European Political Resource: links to political parties, organizations, governments, and media from around the world, listed by country.
Guardian Unlimited Politics | Europe: covers elections in Europe and provides election results, statistics and links to election news.
Parties and Elections in Europe: offers information on parliamentary elections in European countries since 1945 including an electoral calendar, news, and links to political parties around the world.
Database on Central and Eastern
Europe Elections: This site, a joint project of the
Latin America and the Caribbean
Latin American Election Statistics: by Karen Lindvall-Larson, Latin American Studies Bibliographer at the UCSD Libraries, a chronology of elections since independence at the municipal, state, and federal levels in selected Spanish-speaking Latin American countries that also lists sources of statistics for each election as identified. Other countries are added as they are completed.
Common Borders: This non-partisan organization participates as an observer in international elections. The web site provides election news and reports on Latin American area.
Latin
American Network Information
Overview of Latin America Electoral Systems: contains brief summaries of the electoral systems in Latin America.
Political database of Americas: a non-governmental Internet-based project from Georgetown University that provides reference materials, primary documents, comparative studies and statistical data for countries in the Western Hemisphere.
Middle East
Arab Social Science Research: Provides links to elections sites from Middle Eastern countries frmo Algeria to Yemen. Created by the Arab Institute for Studies and Communication (AISC).
Elections – Middle East: Political Studies Association web site offers information on electoral systems, election results and electoral commission web sites by country in the middle east region.
Electoral Systems in the Middle East: provides political data including presidential and parliamentary election results and individual country profiles.
Print Resources
The resources below may all be found in the Social Sciences and Humanities reference stacks. Please see a reference librarian for more information.
Elections since 1945: a worldwide reference compendium / general editor, Ian Gorvin
SSH Ref Stacks (JF1001 .E36 1989)
The international almanac of electoral history / Thomas T. Mackie & Richard Rose
SSH Ref Stacks (JF1001 .M17 1991)
International encyclopedia of elections / Richard Rose, editor in chief
SSH Ref Stacks (JF1001 .I57 2000)
International guide to electoral statistics; guide international des statistiques électorales, edited by Stein Rokkan [and] Jean Meyriat
Elections in Asia and the Pacific: a data handbook / edited by Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz, and Christof Hartmann
Political parties of Asia and the Pacific / Haruhiro Fukui, editor in chief ; Colin A. Hughes ... [et al.], associate editors
SSH Ref Stacks (JQ39.A45 P64 1985)
An electoral atlas of Europe, 1968-1981: a political geographic compendium including 76 maps / John Sallnow and Anna John ; cartography by Sarah K. Webber
SSH Ref Stacks (JN94.A956 S24 1982)
European electoral systems handbook / edited by Geoffrey Hand, Jacques Georgel, Christoph Sasse
Europe votes / compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig and T.T. Mackie
SSH Ref Stacks (JN36 .E8936 1980)
Enciclopedia electoral latinoamericana y
SSH Ref Stacks (JL969.A15 N64 1993)
Democracies in development: politics and reform in Latin America / J. Mark Payne ... [et al.]. Published by the Inter-American Development Bank and the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance.
SSH Stacks (JL966 .D4535 2002 )
Prepared by James R. Jacobs and Shinjoung Yeo, October 16, 2004
