Electoral System Design Database Codebook
This Codebook provides detailed explanations of the variables in International IDEA’s Electoral System Design Database (ESDDatabase).
Theme: Democracy
Electoral System Reform and Design
This document examines a series of Learning Sessions on constitutional change and federalism held in the Philippines in 2018 and…
Emergency Law Responses to Covid-19 and the Impact on Peace and Transition Processes
This report explores the way governments undergoing transitions to peace and democracy have triggered emergency legal frameworks to disable some…
Democracy and the Challenge of Climate Change
This report explores IDEA’s work on climate change and democracy as it aims to support democratic institutions to successfully confront…
Democracy in the Times of Corona: Experiences of Australia, the Republic of Korea and Sweden
This document summarises the discussions of the webinar on 9 June 2020 to examine the pandemic’s potential consequences for democracy…
Digital Microtargeting
This Primer discusses digital microtargeting by political parties and concentrates on examples of political parties around the world that have…
Direct Democracy
This document analyses how direct democracy describes rules, institutions and processes that enable the public to vote directly on a…
The Division of Powers in Federations
he primary focus of this document is the division of legislative power in countries with a federal system of government.
Constitutional Negotiations
his Constitution Brief focuses on strategies and mechanisms for breaking a deadlock in constitutional negotiations conducted in an environment of…
Constitutions and International Law
This Constitution Brief was written initially for use in Myanmar, and it explains the nature of international law and explores…