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يمثل الدستور الهندي (دستور عام ١٩٤٩ مع التعديلات لغاية عام ٢٠١٢)، نصاً تأسيسياً فريداً يعتبر بمثابة الركيزة التي قامت عليها ديمقراطية الهند الناجحة لأكثر من ستة عقود.  قامت الجمعية التأسيسية للهند المكونة من وطنيين بارزين في الهند من أمثال جواهر لال نهرو وساردار فالابهاي باتيل ومولانا أبو الكلام آزاد بصياغة الدستور في الفترة من ١٩٤٦ وحتى ١٩٤٩.  وقد أصبح الدستور نافذاً في ٢٦ يناير ١٩٥٠ وكان مبشراً ببزوغ دولة الهند كجمهورية ديمقراطية ذات سيادة.  وبسبب وجود العديد من الت

In recent years, and under the influence of new telecommunications and social media, citizen movements have emerged as an alternative to political party membership for citizen participation in democratic decision-making processes.

The University of Chicago’s Professor Tom Ginsburg – an expert in comparative constitutions – recently visited Nepal and spoke about what makes a constitution successful.

International IDEA’s experience has shown that its citizen-led assessment frameworks provide a useful means for working within the post-2015 development framework.

Indonesia can provide a useful model for nascent democracies in the region.

Since its first democratic elections in 1999, systematic and professional electoral observation by Indonesia’s civil society organizations has played a vital role in improving the overall quality of elections and building confidence by ensuring election results are accepted by candidates and parties.

This Policy Brief argues that the citizen-led assessment approach should be used to implement, monitor and establish country owned accountability mechanisms for the post-2015 development agenda.

International IDEA’s State of Democracy, State of Local Democracy and Democratic Accountability assessment frameworks (developed as global public goods) offer a basis for designing such a framework.

During this half of 2014, the Parliamentary Centre and International IDEA will partner once again in supporting Bhutan’s democratic development.

^{By Shailaja Chandra, a former Secretary to the Government of India and former Chief Secretary, Delhi. The views expressed in this analysis are hers and should in no way be construed to represent those of International IDEA, its Board and/or Council members.}

The Union Election Commission (UEC), which is responsible for delivering peaceful and credible elections in Myanmar, emphasizes the management of electoral risks in its five-year strategic plan.

Indonesians at home go back to polls for the fourth time since the fall of Soeharto to vote in general legislative elections this Wednesday, 9 April 2014. And for the first time in its history, Indonesians residing overseas get to vote on a different date than their fellow citizens in Indonesia.

International IDEA in collaboration with Demo Finland, UN Women and the Embassy of Finland organized a seminar on the Electoral System and Women’s Representation in Nepal: Need for Reform?on 4 March 2014 in Kathmandu.

270 people participated, including Constituent Assembly (CA) members, representatives from political parties, civil society, media and academics.

The Former Women Constituent Assembly Members Forum in Nepal organized a meeting with Hautala on 6 March 2014 to discuss the change in women’s status in Finland in the last 100 years and how that can inform the movement In Nepal.

On a crystal clear day, set against a backdrop of the snowy Himalayan mountains, around 78 per cent of registered voters turned out to vote in Nepal’s second Constituent Assembly elections on 19 November 2013.

Like other democracies, the Philippines still has its challenges, not least in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.

This assessment of democracy at the local level in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao was conducted by the University of the Philippines National College of Public Administration and Governance (UP-NCPAG) and the Philippine Center for Islam and Democracy (PCID).

A revitalized Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has made democracy and the promotion of people-oriented organizations one of its key purposes.

The Preamble of the ASEAN Charter, which came into force in 2008, highlights the centrality of the region’s people in community building and opens with the phrase, ‘We, The Peoples of the Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’.

This paper analyses diversity in Indonesian local politics and how it affects the country’s democracy and governance.

This Discussion Paper analyses the experience of the Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL) in electoral observation, in particular looking at the strengths and weaknesses of this regional civil-society led initiative in contributing towards the development of democracy in Asia.

Meanwhile, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is considering carrying out elections observation missions in the future.

This Discussion Paper provides a detailed analysis of involvement of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) in election observation.

Its main purpose is to present practical and forward-looking recommendations to improve the effectiveness of the PIF electoral observation missions in supporting electoral processes.

On 3 September 2012, International IDEA presented its Electoral Risk Management Tool  to the staff of Nepal’s Election Commission (ECN), at the newly established Election Education and Information Center (EEIC)^* in Kathmandu.