Book review: Elite statecraft and election administration:bending the rules of the game?

Electoral administration is a topic that only occasionally and dramatically breaks into the public consciousness, but is otherwise the province of the political obsessive. Paul Brighton finds that some of the most important examples of such moments are surprisingly absent from Elite Statecraft and Election Administration, but nonetheless he believes that Toby S. James has written a timely book which serves as a useful reminder that the prominence of electoral administration constitutes a barometer for democratic vitality.