Introduction : challenges of electoral integrity / Pippa Norris -- Assessing elections / Avery Davies-Roberts and David J. Carroll -- Methods and evidence / Pippa Norris, J�rgen Elklit and Andrew Reynolds -- Expert judgments / Ferran Martinez i Coma and Richard W. Frank -- Election monitoring / Ursula Daxecker and Gerald Schneider -- Constitutions and election management / Svitlana Chernykh, Zachary Elkins, James Melton and Tom Ginsburg -- Electoral management in Central America / Antonio Ugues, Jr -- Election management in Britain / Toby S. James -- Investing in electoral management / Alistair Clark -- EMB performance and African perceptions of electoral integrity / Nicholas N. Kerr -- Electoral integrity and democratic legitimacy in Africa / Robert Mattes -- Electoral trust in Latin America / Arturo Maldonado and Mitchell Seligson -- American attitudes towards election fraud / Thad E. Hall and Charles Stewart -- Lessons from the ground : what have we learnt? what do we do next? roundtable discussion with Eric Bjornlund, David Carroll, Staffan Darnolf, Annette Fath-Lihic, Aleida Ferreyra, Betilde Muñoz-Pogossian, Pippa Norris, and Chad Vickery.