Evaluating Elections Hardback: A Handbook of Methods and Standards - Hardcover

'Ten years after the passage of the Help America Vote Act, this book offers a refreshing, practical, and constructive approach to evaluating elections and collecting data that can lead to increased integrity, greater transparency, and better overall accountability of our electoral process.' Dean C. Logan, Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, Los Angeles County, California

'Professors Alvarez, Atkeson, and Hall have produced a wonderfully clear, insightful, and informative volume that will help anyone interested in improving American elections get the job done. Evaluating Elections relies on the authors' extensive knowledge of election administration, drawn from a decade's worth of highly respected work in the field, to chart out a comprehensive program of data-driven election evaluation. At a time when election administration is prone to capture by political forces, [this book] provides a lucid, science-driven, non-partisan prescription about how to evaluate the elections ecosystem ... It is a volume that anyone interested in election administration will want to read, from local election officials to members of Congress. It will undoubtedly incite intense interest among the academic election administration community, which will be inspired to develop further the tools outlined in this volume.' Charles Stewart III, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

R. Michael Alvarez is Professor of Political Science at the California Institute of Technology and Co-Director of the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project. Alvarez is a Fellow of the Political Methodology Society and is co-editor of the journal Political Analysis. He co-authored Electronic Elections: The Perils and Promise of Digital Democracy (with Thad E. Hall, 2010) and Point, Click, and Vote: The Future of Internet Voting (with Thad E. Hall, 2004).