The Rise of Election Monitoring: The Observers Observed

Issue Date July 1997
Volume 8
Issue 3
Page Numbers 17-31
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About the Author

Thomas Carothers is the Harvey V. Fineberg Chair and director of the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His most recent book is Democracies Divided: The Global Challenge of Political Polarization (2019, coedited with Andrew O’Donohue).

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