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Evaluating Democracy Support: Methods and experiences Evaluating Democracy Support: Methods and experiences
English, 256 pages
Designing for Equality: Best-fit, medium-fit and non-favourable combinations of electoral systems and gender quotas (Spanish) Designing for Equality: Best-fit, medium-fit and non-favourable combinations of electoral systems and gender quotas (Spanish)
Diseño para lograr la igualdad
Spanish, 30 pages
State of Opinion: Bolivians, the Constitution, and the Constituent Assembly State of Opinion: Bolivians, the Constitution, and the Constituent Assembly
El estado de la opinión: los bolivianos, la Constitutción y la Constituyente
Spanish, 318 pages
Elusive Equality: Looking at the 2006 General Elections from a Gender Standpoint (Spanish) Elusive Equality: Looking at the 2006 General Elections from a Gender Standpoint (Spanish)
La igualdad esquiva: Una mirada de género a las elecciones generales 2006
Spanish, 162 pages
Electoral System Design: The New International IDEA Handbook (Arabic) Electoral System Design: The New International IDEA Handbook (Arabic)
Arabic, 248 pages

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Former Swedish Foreign Minister Jan Eliasson speaking at IDEA's
Former Swedish Foreign Minister Jan Eliasson speaking at IDEA's "Round table on the State of Democracy in Latin America", Stockholm, 14 June 2006.

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"Effective Party Assistance: Stronger Parties for Better Democracy"

Workshop in Ottawa, 27 November 2007


Democracy and Development
Bangladesh
Bangladesh. Photo: David Isaksson © Global Reporting

"Democracy is more and more meant to include development; development is more and more meant to include the realisation of the basic human rights, including civic and political ones"
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