Coming soon Haiti elections.

Parliamentary elections are due to be held in Haiti on  9 August 2015
these have been delayed by protests.
Here are some useful background links to get started on  researching the topic.

IPU has background information on the electoral system

Le Conseil Electoral Provisoire has current laws, lists of candidates and information in French about the conduct of the elections.

ACE project has background information on the electoral system including links to past election observation reports from the 1990s onwards.

News coverage.
Haiti Libre has stories and polls. 
it also has reports from the  the Citizen Observatory for Institutionalizing Democracy (OCID), a consortium of civil society composed of the Civil Society Initiative (ISC), the Ecumenical Center for Human Rights humans (ECHR) and JURIMEDIA,
Alterpresse is an alternative news network that frequently published news stories in French about elections and human rights topics.

Election observation Missions.
These organisations will be deploying missions to assess the state of democracy and conduct of the elections.
European Union
OAS - Organisation of American states
Minustah - United Nations mission in the region has comments 

 Human rights reports relating to Haiti
These organisations provide access to background news and reports on issues relating to human rights and democracy
Citizen Observatory for Institutionalizing Democracy (OCID) has reported on a variety of recent topics. These include:
Registration of candidates.
Diagnosis of civic engagement in the context of the 2015 elections in Haiti (in French) 
 Institute for Justice and Democracy - Haiti. Examples include the 2015 paper ensuring fair elections a legal analysis. 
They have also created a 2015 elections blog.This has analysis of news articles.

Burundi elections update

as controversial elections take place in Burundi
Read the IFES briefing to get insight

Our earlier posting from June links to resources expressing concerns. 
for background from the Burundi government try the CENI electoral commission website.

The United Nations Election Observation mission  has preliminary statement about the conduct of the elections.
 EU mission remains withdrawn
African union did not send observers.
US state department said conditions were woefully inadequate.

Medicine sans Frontieres has reported people fleeing the borders.

Greek referendum useful academic resources

A sudden referendum to decide whether or not Greece is to accept the bailout conditions proposed by the European Union (EU), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Central Bank (ECB) will take place on 5 July 2015. The referendum was announced by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in the early morning of 27 June 2015

for some background try our useful links in the recent posting
is the bailout immoral? 

Voters will be asked whether they approve of the proposal made to Greece by the EU, the IMF and the ECB during the Eurogroup meeting on 25 June. The proposal consists of two documents, titled Reforms for the completion of the Current Program and Beyond and Preliminary Debt sustainability analysis.The question will contain two choices stated as "Those citizens that reject the proposal of the three institutions vote 'Not approved/No'" and "Those citizens that agree with the proposal of the three institutions vote 'Approved/Yes'".

Decision from the Hellenic Parliament in Greek
European Parliament press release relating to the referendum
Speech from Greek Prime minister announcing the referendum. includes English language transcript.

Recent polls in Greek on attitudes towards the Euro.

http://www.tovima.gr/politics/article/?aid=717394

http://www.protothema.gr/politics/article/488501/57-na-upograpsoun-ki-as-einai-kai-mnimonio/

Commentary
 According to the New Statesman the referendum question makes no sense.
According to the Huffington Post Paul Krugman is urging a no vote.

New York Times
Independent

Economist

Spiegel

Washington Post Blogs.

Forbes has a summary of what it means for the market

 Blogs (covering the Greek debt crisis)

 Project Syndicate has commentary from economist Joseph Stiglitz

Hellenic Observatory LSE

Greek crisis. Prof. Aristides Hatzis of the University of Athens

Greek Public Policy Forum.

 

Elections in Denmark - dont get confused with Borgen try our online guide!

Elections in Denmark are due to take place this week on 18th June
confused by the parties.
The local has a guide which  gives you the facts

Other basic guides to the electoral system of Denmark include.
IFES
Interparliamentary Union.
Danish parliament website has explanations and links to the relevant legislation in English. This includes a very useful guide to the electoral system with recent results.


Danish national newspaper coverage.

Berlingske this includes recent polls.

Politiken
Jyllands-Posten
Copenhagen Post

 Past election results 

Statistics Denmark has tables for national, regional and European elections from 2011 onwards.
1990-2015 can be obtained from the European Elections website
The Danish National Election study has data from 1970-2011. this includes political preferences and voting intentions. Some materials can be downloaded from the website.
The Election research group Aalborg University also has information on this work.

Turkey elections- end of single party rule?

This week Turkey went to the polls. Get some background by using these recommended resources.
The official electoral body has facts and results (currently in Turkish ) only.
OSCE observed the conduct of the elections. Find more out about their mission and read the initial findings on their website.

BBC has a basic guide to the issues on its website and does Time Magazine. Al-Jazeera centre for studies has issued a special report outlining the implications of the elections.
Al-Monitor Turkey pulse has a good collections of articles and analysis covering events.

Blogs

James in Turkey - from journalist Michael Sercan Daventry has coverage. It includes polls and examination of the manifesto pledges

Open democracy net discussion.

Academic discussion from the Conversation.

LSE EUROPP blog

Analysis of Turkish politicsGood sources include:
Rethink Institute Washington DC.
Washington Institute.
Rand analysis of economic and political policy in the region.
Council on Foreign Relations.
Brookings.
Carnegie Endowment.
Turkey Analyst  bi-weekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Joint Center
Chatham House
Centre for Policy and Research on Turkey (Research Turkey)independent, non-partisan, non-governmental organisation devoted to policy analysis