 | The Hidden Costs of Clean Election Reform Schaffer reveals how tinkering with the electoral process, even with the best of intentions, can easily damage democratic ideals. Frederic Charles Schaffer is Lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard University and Research Associate at the Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has worked as an election specialist in Iraq and Haiti. He is the author of Democracy in Translation: Understanding Politics in an Unfamiliar Culture, also from Cornell. |
