Beyond free and fair : monitoring elections and building democracy / Eric Bjornlund.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-364) and index.

Foreword / Lee H. Hamilton -- 1. The emergence of election monitoring -- 2. The expansion of democracy and democracy promotion -- 3. Elections and election monitoring -- 4. From nongovernmental to intergovernmental organizations : actors in international election monitoring -- 5. Jimmy Carter and the popularization of international election observation -- 6. Toward "free and fair" elections? -- 7. The scope and methodology of international election observation -- 8. Cambodia : challenges to international election observation -- 9. Host-government manipulation of observers : elections in Zimbabwe -- 10. The origins of domestic election monitoring : NAMFREL and its successors -- 11. Domestic election monitoring as an end and a means -- 12. Foreign support for domestic election monitoring in Indonesia : missed opportunities and unintended consequences -- 13. Verifying the vote count : quick counts, parallel tabulations, and exit polls in Macedonia and Indonesia -- 14. Toward more meaningful international election monitoring -- App. Elections and election monitoring in newly democratic and semiauthoritarian countries.