Acknowledgements

This report was written by Seema Shah, Michael Runey and Alexander Hudson, with inputs from Binto Bali, Emily Bloom, Daniela Dominguez, Gentiana Gola, Emma Kenny, Maria Angeles Morales Gonzalez, Irene Postigo Sanchez, Antonio Spinelli and David Towriss, as well as from International IDEA staff members from several programmes—Africa and West Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific, and Europe. The report was produced under the supervision of Kevin Casas-Zamora and Katarzyna Gardapkhadze. Grace Morris provided invaluable fact-checking. We are indebted to Emily Bloom, Daniela Dominguez and Emma Kenny for their research and data collection assistance. Emily Bloom and Alexander Hudson produced all the graphs in the report. Lisa Hagman oversaw the publication production process.

Notwithstanding all the generous advice, help and comments received from partners, International IDEA takes sole responsibility for the content of the report.

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