The impact of national and international observers in democratic elections: A randomized control trial from the Mozambican elections of 2009


Autoria(s): Almeida, Tiago Filipe de L. S. de
Contribuinte(s)

Vicente, Pedro

Data(s)

14/03/2014

14/03/2014

01/06/2013

Resumo

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Economics from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

Mozambique’s national elections in 2009 were paired with national and international monitoring programs, characterized by a randomized allocation. By assessing the impact of the observers on election outcomes we see evidence of electoral fraud. Moreover, na-tional fixed observers were found to be highly capable of deterring fraud and a relation between observers and voters’ behaviour was found. National and international have dif-ferent effects on outcomes and we attribute this fact to the different impact on voters’ and voting table staff’s behaviour.

Identificador

http://hdl.handle.net/10362/11590

Idioma(s)

eng

Publicador

NSBE - UNL

Direitos

openAccess

Tipo

masterThesis