Electoral Rights in Europe: Advances and Challenges

The first part of the book, Hard and Soft Law Human Rights Standards Relating to Elections, discusses the various standards for the conduct of elections that have been devised at the international level, focusing on their application within Europe. 

The second part, National and Regional Case Studies, presents a number of cases that demonstrate how problems that occur might be amenable to solution through the adoption of an approach based on the existing or potential hard and soft law standards. The case studies relate to jurisdictions within Europe, especially Central and Eastern Europe, and there is a focus on countries emerging from conflict or from an authoritarian past. 

The third part of the book, Comparative Perspectives, looks at some pertinent electoral issues comparatively, attempting to deduce from those studies emerging principles that might guide countries towards electoral systems that are fairer and have greater integrity and reliability.