The Pseudo-Democrat's Dilemma: Why Election Monitoring Became an International Norm by Hyde Susan D

Author:Hyde, Susan D. [Hyde, Susan D.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780801461255
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2011-07-20T16:00:00+00:00

Refusing to Invite International Observers

By 2000, few countries were violating the norm and not inviting international observers. One interesting feature of the evolving game between international observers and pseudo-democrats is how rarely leaders simply refuse to invite international observers. Outside of the exclusive club of wealthy and stable democracies, a small subset of countries refused observers even after the norm became widely accepted. As mentioned in previous chapters, some countries stopped inviting observers because they became widely regarded as democracies, such as the Czech Republic and Chile, and were no longer expected to have their elections observed. Other countries, such as Cuba, North Korea, Oman, Vietnam, and Turkmenistan, held elections in which multiparty competition was impossible and therefore stood no chance of holding plausibly democratic elections.

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