Building Democracy: Links

• The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral assistance,
  is an intergovernmental organization, supporting sustainable democracy worldwide. This web site has a lot of information about IDEa's work as well as comparative studies on Democracy assessment, Democracy Building and Conflict Management, Electoral Processes, Political Parties, and Women in Politics. Some popular databases on topics such as administration and cost of elections, voter turnout, gender quotas and electoral systems provide material for those wanting to probe deeper into the essential features and the variety of modern democratic systems.
  
  
• www.carnegieendowment.org for International Peace.
  
  
• The Long Way to Women's Right to Vote in Switzerland
  a Testcase for direct democracy
  
  
• Democracy - a basic course
  an UNESCO project to help southeastern European nations in building democracy