The U.S. midterm elections will be held on November 3rd. The period leading up to these elections has been a contentious time marked by executive orders and corresponding court decisions. This panel ...

To address global changes in election administration, International IDEA held a roundtable discussion titled “Skills Needed for the Elections of the Future,” aimed at directors and officials of the ...

International IDEA and the Electoral Integrity Project (EIP) launched Review of the 2025 Year of Elections: Inclusivity, Transparency and Trust, bringing together electoral experts and practitioners ...

Participants from the "Strategic, Coordinated and AI-Supported Electoral Communication" workshop in Erbil, Iraq, during September. International IDEA organized, in collaboration with the Independent ...

In a democracy, formal popular votes are important to the exercise of people power. Traditionally, in most representative democracies, the power of citizens to make decisions at the ballot box was ...

This Guide provides an inventory of United Nations jurisprudence relevant to electoral processes. It organizes and cross-references international law applicable to elections in order to make it ...

International IDEA, the Electoral Tribunal of Panama, and the European Union brought together experts and public officials to examine the risks posed by disinformation and artificial intelligence, ...

Citizen assemblies have emerged as an important innovation in climate governance, bringing together citizens, governments, civil society and policy actors to increase the ambition and improve the ...

Gender inequality in the political process remains an important problem in all countries. Women often have less access than men to the resources needed to successfully seek a party nomination or stand ...

International IDEA will join the SADC Parliamentary Forum’s Standing Committee Session tomorrow to brief parliamentarians from across the region on the findings of the Global State of Democracy (GSoD) ...

The Global Commission on Democracy and Multilateralism, convened by Club de Madrid together with International IDEA, the Open Government Partnership and the European Democracy Hub, brings together ...