THE YEAR IN ELECTIONS WWW.ELECTORALINTEGRITYPROJECT.COM THE YEAR IN ELECTIONS, 2017 MID-YEAR UPDATE Pippa Norris, Thomas Wynter, Max Grömping and Sarah M. Cameron PEI 5.5 WWW.ELECTORALINTEGRITYPROJECT.COM October 2017 PEI 5.5 | page 1 THE YEAR IN ELECTIONS WWW.ELECTORALINTEGRITYPROJECT.COM The Electoral Integrity Project Department of Government anD International Relations Merewether BuilDing, HO4 University of SyDney, SyDney NSW, 2006, Australia Phone: +61(2) 9351 2147 Email:
[email protected] Web: http://www.electoralintegrityproject.com Dataverse: http://thedata.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/PEI Twitter: https://twitter.com/ElectIntegrity Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/electoralintegrity Copyright © Pippa Norris, Thomas Wynter, Max Grömping anD Sarah M. Cameron 2017. All rights reserveD. Cover photo: Voting in Turkmenistan [UntitleD], by Bohan Shen (CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0). https://www.flickr.com/photos/antonis/ Printed anD bounD in SyDney, Australia. PEI 5.5 | page 2 THE YEAR IN ELECTIONS WWW.ELECTORALINTEGRITYPROJECT.COM Table of Contents I: INTRODUCTION: ........................................................................................................................................ 4 Figure 1: The Global Map of Electoral Integrity ................................................................................... 5 Figure 2: The Perceptions of Electoral Integrity Index (PEI-5.5) ........................................................... 6 Figure 3: PEI Index for elections from January 1 to June 30, 2017 ......................................................