What Are Electoral Networks and Why Do They Matter?
Globalization has brought rapid and dynamic changes to organizational management, including electoral administration, and such changes are encouraging EMBs to move away from the hierarchical structures and routines of the past. At both the regional and national levels, an increasing number of electoral practitioners are also working together through well-established networks to find solutions to common problems and build innovations through the sustained sharing of ideas, information and experience.
Electoral networks are important for helping electoral managers around the world cope with the pace of change in the environments in which elections take place.
Electoral networks foster capacity development among electoral managers and serve as useful forums to address common concerns such as EMB independence, EMB funding or the use of technology in elections. Electoral managers need no longer operate in isolation from each other and without any external support to improve their knowledge and skills.
