DOI: 10.7910/dvn/mqci3u
title: Electoral Learning and Capacity Building (ELECT) data

description: The Electoral Integrity Project at Harvard University and the University of Sydney (www.electoralintegrityproject.com) developed ELECT data, release 1.0.

Electoral Management Bodies (EMBs) are the central agencies responsible for running elections in countries around the world. Too little is however known about the common challenges facing these agencies, and how to expand capacity and skills associated with professional electoral administration. 

The Electoral Integrity Project launched the Electoral Learning and Capacity Building (ELECT) study in 2016. The study has two components:

1. The ELECT Organizational Survey, that gathered macro-level information about the agency from upper-management personnel in 35 diverse EMBs worldwide. 

2. The ELECT Staff Survey, that gathered individual-level evidence from staff working within EMBs, with a special focus on two selected case studies (South Korea and Mexico).

For both the Organisational and Staff surveys, the following files can be accessed:
a) dataset in Stata and SPSS formats;
b) codebook;
c) questionnaire.


The EIP acknowledges support from the Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate from the Australian Research Council (ARC ref: FL110100093), and from the Association of World Election Bodies (A-WEB; http://www.aweb.org).


**** EIP further publications:
BOOKS • LeDuc, Lawrence, Richard Niemi and Pippa Norris. Eds. 2014. Comparing Democracies 4: Elections and Voting in a Changing World. London: Sage Publications. • Nai, Alessandro and Walter, Annemarie. Eds. 2015 New Perspectives on Negative Campaigning: Why Attack Politics Matters. Colchester: ECPR Press. • Norris, Pippa, Richard W. Frank and Ferran Martínez i Coma. Eds. 2014. Advancing Electoral Integrity. New York: Oxford University Press. • Norris, Pippa, Richard W. Frank and Ferran Martínez i Coma. Eds. 2015. Contentious Elections: From Ballots to the Barricades. New York: Routledge. • Norris, Pippa. 2014. Why Electoral Integrity Matters. New York: Cambridge University Press. • Norris, Pippa. 2015. Why Elections Fail. New York: Cambridge University Press. • Norris, Pippa and Andrea Abel van Es. Eds. 2016. Checkbook Elections? Political Finance in Comparative Perspective. Oxford University Press. ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS • W. Frank. 2013. ‘Assessing the quality of elections.’ Journal of Democracy. 24(4): 124-135.• Lago, Ignacio and Martínez i Coma, Ferran. 2016. ‘Challenge or Consent? Understanding Losers’ Reactions in Mass Elections’. Government and Opposition doi:10.1071/gov.3015.31 • Martínez i Coma, Ferran and Lago, Ignacio. 2016. 'Gerrymandering in Comparative Perspective’ Party Politics DOI: 10.1177/1354068816642806 • Norris, Pippa. 2013. ‘Does the world agree about standards of electoral integrity? Evidence for the diffusion of global norms.’ Special issue of Electoral Studies. 32(4):576-588. • Norris, Pippa. 2013. ‘The new research agenda studying electoral integrity’. Special issue of Electoral Studies. 32(4): 563-575.57 • Norris, Pippa. 2014. ‘Electoral integrity and political legitimacy.’ In Comparing Democracies 4. Lawrence LeDuc, Richard Niemi and Pippa Norris. Eds. London: Sage. • Norris, Pippa, Richard W. Frank and Ferran Martínez i Coma. 2014. ‘Measuring electoral integrity: A new dataset.’ PS: Political Science & Politics. 47(4): 789-798. • Norris, Pippa. 2016 (forthcoming). ‘Electoral integrity in East Asia.’ Routledge Handbook on Democratization in East Asia. Tun-jen Cheng and Yun-han Chu. Eds. Routledge: New York. • Norris, Pippa. 2016 (forthcoming). ‘Electoral transitions: Stumbling out of the gate.’ In Rebooting Transitology – Democratization in the 21st Century. Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou and Timothy D. Sisk. Eds. • Pietsch, Juliet; Michael Miller and Jeffrey Karp. 2015. ‘Public support for democracy in transitional regimes.’ Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties. 25(1): 1–9. DOI: 10.1080/17457289.2014. • Smith, Rodney. 2016 (forthcoming). ‘Confidence in paper-based and electronic voting channels: Evidence from Australia.’ Australian Journal of Political Science. ID: 1093091 DOI: 10.1080/10361146.2015.1093091 dx.doi.org/10.1080/07907184.2015.1099097 • Van Ham, Carolien and Staffan Lindberg. 2015. ‘From sticks to carrots: Electoral manipulation in Africa, 1986-2012’, Government and Opposition 50(3): 521 - 548, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/gov.2015.6 • Van Ham, Carolien and Staffan Lindberg. 2015. ‘When Guardians Matter Most: Exploring the Conditions under Which Electoral Management Body Institutional Design Affects Election Integrity’, Irish Political Studies, 30(4): 454 - 481, http:// dx.doi.org/10.1080/07907184.2015.1099097 • Van Ham, Carolien and Staffan Lindberg. 2015. ‘From sticks to carrots: Electoral manipulation in Africa, 1986-2012’, Government and Opposition 50(3): 521 - 548, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/gov.2015.6 REPORTS • Grömping, Max and Ferran Martínez i Coma. 2015 ‘Electoral Integrity in Africa’. • Norris, Pippa; Richard W. Frank and Ferran Martínez i Coma. 2014. ‘The Year in Elections, 2013’. • Norris, Pippa; Ferran Martínez i Coma and Max Grömping. 2015. ‘The Year in Elections, 2014’. • Norris, Pippa; Andrea Abel van Es and Lisa Fennis. 2015. ‘Checkbook Elections? Political Finance in Comparative Perspective’. • Several authors. 2015. Secure and Fair Elections (SAFE) Workshop: Model Curriculum. Stockholm: International IDEA.