The Rise of Election Monitoring: The Observers Observed

Thomas Carothers is director of research at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has participated in election-observation missions in various parts of the world for the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs and the International Foundation for Election Systems, but the views expressed in this article are his own. He is the author of In the Name of Democracy: U.S. Policy Toward Latin America in the Reagan Years (1991) and Assessing Democracy Assistance: The Case of Romania (l996).