Election Observation: How Authoritarian Regimes Muddy the...
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Patrick Merloe, Thomas O. Melia, and Jan Surotchak discussed how authoritarian regimes are devising new ways to impede authentic election observation as part of a wider authoritarian effort to create anti-democratic counternorms around the world.
Putin's Potemkin Popularity: Op-Ed by Christopher Walker & Robert...
Feb 1, 2015 Op-Ed: "How Russia Props Up Putin in the Polls" Forum News
How Russia Props Up Putin in the Polls
By Christopher Walker and Robert Orttung, as it appeared in the Washington Post on January 30 Christopher Walker is executive director of the International Forum for Democratic...
Challenges to Stability in Tajikistan: Parliamentary Elections...
03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
During his presentation, Umed Babakhanov discussed the history of political Islam in Tajikistan and the impact of Western sanctions on Russia on stability in Tajikistan, including the implications of these trends for the 2015 elections.
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