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International Democracy Documents: A Compilation of Treaties and Other Instruments. Edited by Frithjof Ehm and Christian Walter. Leiden: Brill Nijhoff, 2015. 718 pages.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2016

MICHAEL PAL*
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Assistant Professor and Director, Public Law Group, Faculty of Law (Common Law Section), University of Ottawa
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Copyright © The Canadian Yearbook of International Law/Annuaire canadien de droit international 2016 

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References

1 Arch Puddington, Discarding Democracy: A Return to the Iron Fist (New York: Freedom House, 2015) at 8.

2 Ibid at 7–8.

3 See Electoral Integrity Project, <http://www.electoralintegrityproject.com>.

4 Pippa Norris, Ferran Martínez i Coma & Richard W Frank, “Assessing the Quality of Elections” (2013) 24:4 J Democracy 124. For the most recent data, see Pippa Norris, Ferran Martínez i Coma, Alessandro Nai & Max Groemping, The Expert Survey of Perceptions of Electoral Integrity, PEI_4.0 (2016), online: Electoral Integrity Project <sites.google.com/site/electoralintegrityproject4/projects/expert-survey-2>.

5 Pippa Norris, “The New Research Agenda Studying Electoral Integrity” (2013) 32 Electoral Studies 563 at 564; Pippa Norris, Why Electoral Integrity Matters (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014).

6 Frithjof Ehm & Christian Walter, eds, International Democracy Documents: A Compilation of Treaties and Other Documents (Leiden: Brill Nijhoff, 2015).

7 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, GA Res 217 (III), UN Doc A/810 (1948); International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 16 December 1966, 999 UNTS 171 [ICCPR].

8 Ehm & Walter, supra note 6 at 22.

9 Puddington, supra note 1.

10 ICCPR, supra note 7, art 25.

11 Council of Europe, European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission), Code of Good Practice in Electoral Matters: Guidelines and Explanatory Report, Doc CDL-AD (2002) at 20, s 3.1, online: Council of Europe <http://www.venice.coe.int/webforms/documents/CDL-AD(2002)023rev-e.aspx>.

12 Inter-Parliamentary Council, Declaration on Criteria for Free and Fair Elections (26 March 1994) at s 4(9), online: Inter-Parliamentary Union <http://www.ipu.org/cnl-e/154-free.htm>.

13 Ehm & Walter, supra note 6 at 1–2.