Pakistan elections 2018 - get up to speed with these academic resources

Here are some links to  good academic resources about the July 2018 elections.

Election Commission of Pakistan official website has news and election results (from 1970 onwards) These cover the regulation and operation of the elections.
Democracy Reporting International  has produced a useful basic guide for journalists which lists the regulations, media coverage outlets and has links to key documents.

Election Observers
These websites sumarise the conditions in which the elections were conducted
European Union election observation of the conduct of the elections.
Commonwealth
FAFEN - Fair and Free Election Network Pakistan has an election monitor and discussion of the conduct of the elections on its website

Trust for Democratic Education and Accountability has a long term elections oversight project which monitors democracy and conduct.

Aurat Foundation Pakistan election awareness and monitoring cell.

Centre for Civic Education has voter literacy campaigns and assessments - see this pre-election briefing.

Centre for Peace and Development Initiatives is monitoring the election procedures. publications include an accessibility audit of polling stations. They also co maintain a MyVote voter education site with facts intended for the general public

Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has annual reports and news on human rights

Pildat - Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Democracy conducts assessments of all aspects of democracy. It has a pre-poll score card on perceptions of fairness

comparative analysis of manifestos.

News coverage
Guardian
Al-Jazeera
Daily Express tribune Pakistan
Dawn
Nation Pakistan

International think tank/NGO analysis of Pakistan
Amnesty International 
Human Rights Watch
Council on Foreign Relations
Brookings Institution

OSCE criticism of Hungarian elections get the facts.

Hungarian elections were held recently.
the observation mission from the OSCE has criticised the conduct of the meeting. Find out why by downloading their full report.
they also have reports of earlier missions covering previous elections.


for official information try the Hungarian election commission
the National Parliament website has an English Language version with details of the electoral laws.
background information on the electoral system can be found on the IFES website. It includes results from previous events.


News service
Hungary today English language news had weekly round up of events.
Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty.


Hungarian media
24 hr
About Hungary - official blog of Hungarian prime minister government
Magyar Nemzet


Commentary
Hungarian Spectrum features daily analyses of news from Hungary—political, economic, and cultural. Its editor and primary pundit is Eva S. Balogh, who formerly taught East European history at Yale University
Conversation blog.
Europp Blog.

Austrian elections try our free links.

this week Austrians voted in elections.

Use this website to get the results and links to key party websites.

Austrian Government website
Has results, legislation, regulation.
Austrian National Election studies provide sinformation on voter behaviour and attitudes in earlier elections. Some information offered in German only.

Austrian press coverage.
Profil
Der Standard.
APA presse group have visualizations.

Analysis

LSE Europpblog

Politico news analysis

Germany elections - get some analysis and facts

This week Germany went to the polls
For a great introduction to the political system try DW which has a primer

official results from the Federal returning officer- it includes 
legal information and regulations.


Newspaper coverage.
try these sites for analysis.
Guardian.
FT
Spiegel
DW 
Politico EU news.
ZDF - TV debates
Welt
Tageschau

Analysis
Academic discussion from the UK conversation blog.
LSE Blogs.
See also this podcast of a recent event
A Changing Germany in a Changing Europe? The German Elections and Implications for Europe.
MZES analysis

Historic Results.
German longitudinal  Data survey data - details about availability. Project information.
Politbarometer 1977-2016 - opinion polls

NSD: European Election Database – Germany publishes regional level election data; allows for comparisons of election results, 1990–2015
 

Kenya Elections 2017

Elections will take place in Kenya on 8th August
Here are some useful links for academic researchers.


IFES has a general background guide to the electoral system and previous elections.
IPU has recent election results . Get access to official information and full text electoral laws from the Kenyan Electoral Commission.

For information on womens participation in the elections se this useful IFES blog about a recently launched social media campaign The #BetterThanThis website includes information about women’s political representation, barriers to women’s political participation

For background information on the state of democracy and human rights in the region see
Human Rights watch reports. 
Amnesty International
Afrobarometer - has reports and polls on Kenyan citizens views of justice and democracy in the region from 2003 onwards.

Newspaper coverage/ blogs
Good starting points for polls, news stories and tracking of the election are

Kenya Standard.

Kenya Nation

Al- Jazeera Background

Guardian

Human Rights watch blog

LSE Africa blogs

Election observations

useful for assessments of the conduct of the elections.

Elections Observation Group

includes reports on media monitoring for hate speech.

Carter Center

European Union Observation Center