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Broken Oversight: The Role of Electoral Justice in Political Finance: Lessons from Mexico

This article argues that Mexico’s detailed and strict oversight rules for political finance, while among the most robust and praised in the world, are ultimately rendered ineffective due to recent failures of the country’s electoral justice system. Through a process of politicisation, the country’s Electoral Tribunal has increasingly used legal formalism and technicalities to reverse […]

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Operational and Procedural Integrity of elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Malpractice has affected the integrity of elections in the DRC in its three recent democratic electoral cycles: 2006, 2011, and 2018, particularly the last cycle. However, even though national and international media indicate that the degree of threats to electoral integrity is more critical in the DRC than the rest of Africa, the problems in […]