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International Election Observation Missions: The Deepest Objections and Greatest Resilience of Internal Conditionality?

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March 2004. Southern Siberia. Shovelled snow is piled two metres high to make a narrow footpath to a wooden cabin. It is heated by hand-chopped logs that are fed into a decades-old stove to heat this polling station. Only a few dozen names are on this rural voters’ list for the Russian presidential election. The chairman of the polling station amiably greets his foreign visitors — international election observers from the OSCE. After a while, he asks: “When will I get to inspect polling stations in your countries?”

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Fawn, R. (2013). International Election Observation Missions: The Deepest Objections and Greatest Resilience of Internal Conditionality?. In: International Organizations and Internal Conditionality. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137305497_3

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