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Subject:        CFP: Ukrainian Presidential Elections Observation 2004
Date:   Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:48:09 -0700 (PDT)
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Call for Papers:

“THE 2004 PRESIDENTIAL POLL IN UKRAINE: A CASE STUDY
IN LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL ELECTION OBSERVATION”
(working title)

-- A Collected Volume of Election Observers’ Reports,
Reflections, and Analyses on the Three Rounds of the
2004 Ukrainian Presidential Elections --

Deadline: 15th June 2005

The ibidem Paperback Series _Soviet and Post-Soviet
Politics & Society_ published by ibidem-Verlag 
(http://www.ibidem-verlag.de/r1l.html) invites
English- and German-language original reports and
analytical papers on the three ballots of the 2004
presidential elections in Ukraine as well as on the
conduct and success of the local and international
election observation at them. 

Contributions selected for publication will appear in
a collected volume edited by Ingmar Bredies M.A.,
doctoral student of Ukrainian politics at the
University of Rostock, Germany, and National Taras
Shevchenko University of Kyiv, and Dr. Andreas Umland,
Bosch Visiting Lecturer at the National University
“Kyiv-Mohyla Academy,” Ukraine.

The volume features three types of contributions:

1.      in chapter one of the book’s main part, scholarly
analyses of 
- any one or two of the three ballots, 
- the whole election (all three ballots), or 
- any particular aspect of it (voting and counting in
certain regions, media coverage, campaign strategies,
etc.).

2.      in chapter two of the book’s main part, scholarly
analyses of the conduct, role and relevance of the
local and international election observation in
securing fair campaigning, unhindered and honest
voting, adequate counting and reporting of votes, etc.


3.      in appendices, 
(a)     original election reports by local and
international observers (we are particularly
interested in reports from such regions as Donetsk,
Kirovohrad, Luhansk, etc.), 
(b)     participant reflections on the observation process
itself by local and international election observers,
and
(c)     series of photographs taken at various occasions
related to the elections (voting at the ballot boxes,
press conferences by officials, campaign material,
etc.).

The publisher and editors regret to be unable to
provide translating or correcting services, or any
other individual editorial assistance to authors. Only
thoroughly edited and carefully formulated reports,
reflections and analyses will be considered for
eventual publication. If your report/reflection is not
in your mother tongue, you may have to secure help —
i.e. thorough corrective reading — by a competent
German or English native speaker. Linguistically or
stylistically imperfect texts will be returned to
authors. 

Draft papers may be considered, if you can guarantee
that a not yet fully finished text will, in the case
of a preliminary acceptance for possible inclusion in
the volume, be later thoroughly edited. We will be
happy to give a first feedback on your draft, and make
an indication whether we might, in principal, be
interested, or not. Preliminarily accepted texts that
are subsequently not sufficiently edited and corrected
until a given deadline will, however, not be
published. (Therefore, submit only draft texts that
you will, ultimately, be willing and able to finish up
for publication in time.)
 
Contributions should, as a rule, have a length between
2,000 and 8,000 words. Tables, graphs, pictures, and
especially unpublished photographs (e.g. taken at the
polling stations by yourself) are welcome. Photographs
should have a quality of, at least, 300 dpi, and be
properly annotated (description of scene, and place &
date taken). They can either be included into an
analysis or report at an appropriate place in the
text, or put, as a series, into the appendices
section. Coloured photographs will be reproduced in
black-and-white only. Please, do not submit
photographs not taken by yourself. Neither the editors
nor the publisher will take responsibility for any
copy-right violations.

References to primary or secondary sources appear in
footnotes which should give exhaustive and correct
information on the source referred to, or quoted from.
Please, apply the book series’ quotation format and
other stylistic prescriptions (headings, use of
quotation marks, transliteration, etc.) outlined in
the series www-site at: 

http://www.ibidem-verlag.de/r1l2.html.

Authors whose contributions have been accepted for
publication will have to provide an information sheet
including their full address, short bio, possible
on-site activities during the elections, and a short
English-language abstract of their text.

The editors and publisher regret to be unable to pay
any honorarium or royalties for published
contributions. Authors of longer analytical papers
only will receive one free copy of the collected
volume. Authors of original election reports will,
unfortunately, only have the opportunity to buy a book
copy for the authors’ special, reduced price.
Additional copies too can be ordered for the reduced
price for authors, directly from the publisher. (The
editors apologize for being unable to offer more
favourable conditions.)

Please, send your proposal or manuscript until 15th
June 2005: 

per e-mail to: 

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or

per snail mail to: 

Ingmar Bredies
National Taras Shevchenko University
Faculty of Sociology and Psychology 
Chair for General Sociology 
Vul. Volodymyrska, 60 
UA-01033  Kyiv
Ukraine

Editor, "Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics & Society" - an 
ibidem book series, http://www.ibidem-verlag.de/r1l.html.
Instructions for authors at http://www.ibidem-verlag.de/r1l2.html.
Temporary mailing address until 1st June 2005: Bosch-Lektoren,
Goethe-Institut Kiew, Post- & Kurierstelle, Werderscher 
Markt 1, D-10117 Berlin, Germany; tel. +38-044-2786344.
Permanent home address: Am Rosenweg 1, D-07751 Jena, 
Germany; tel. +49-(0)36425-50530; fax +1-661-4573014.

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