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EleQta is an IT platform ensuring the safe and rapid upload of information about electoral processes studied within the Re-examining Elections After African Experiences research project.
Research data produced within the project is uploaded via a web interface accessible through the research team members’ smartphones; the data includes quantitative elements as well as text, images, videos and sound. EleQta also ensures the standardisation of the data collected according to an established methodological framework, as well as its coherence that are guaranteed through a series of cross-validation processes. The scope of EleQta is to make electoral data available to and exploitable by researche
Elections are at the heart of representative democracy, a model that been presented as the ideal form of government, to be enacted across the globe. After the end of many one-party political systems in the 1990s, the number and frequency of elections across the world has steadily increased. However, over the past thirty years a crisis has been developing. The efficiency of “mature” democratic systems in the West appears to be weakened, while research about elections in Sub-Saharan Africa has shown that the
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