International election monitoring, sovereignty and the western hemisphere idea

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-278) and index.

Introduction -- Antecedents of IEM -- The Western hemisphere's normative structure, IEM, and state sovereignty: The argument in brief -- Plan of the book -- On the meaning of sovereignty -- Sovereignty as individual rationality and material interests -- Sovereignty as argumentative rationality and constitutional structures -- Transnational advocacy networks as interlocutors and sovereignty builders -- Alternative explanations -- Neoliberal institutionalism -- Neoclassical realism -- Summary -- The Western hemisphere idea and the emergence of IEM -- The Western hemisphere idea -- The advent of the Cold War -- The emergence of IEM -- The appearance of non-OAS IEM -- The convergence of IGOS and INGOS: the IEM tan consolidates -- Inquiring into IEM: methodological considerations -- Conclusions -- Chile's 1988 plebiscite: the birth of the IEM network -- On the WHI, the Cold War, and Chile's domestic structure -- The 1988 plebiscite as an international event -- The law group -- The national democratic institute for -- International affairs -- Conclusions -- Nicaragua's 1990 elections: the consolidation of the IEM network -- Nicaragua's domestic structure -- US policy toward Nicaragua and the Latin American response -- The 1990 elections -- The Carter Center -- The Organization of American States -- The United Nations -- Conclusions -- Mexico's 1994 elections: sovereignty redefined -- Mexico's domestic structure -- Mexico during the Salinas administration -- The origins of election monitoring and the 1994 electoral reform -- The 1994 elections -- Alianza Cívica -- The United Nations -- The Carter Center -- Conclusions -- Peru's 2000 elections: democracy as an international affair -- Peru's domestic structure before Fujimori: the last cycle -- The advent of Fujimorism, or the decade of "Anti- politics" -- Fujimori's competitive authoritarianism -- Toward the 2000 elections -- Conclusions -- IEm in other settings and in IR theory -- IEM in other settings -- The argument revisited -- Democratic peace theory and IEM -- Recent approaches to.