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With a short time remaining in office, “President Bush’s aides have been scrambling to change rules and regulations on the environment, civil liberties and abortion rights, among others,” reports the New York Times. In the midst of a presidential campaign that featured an incumbent party determined minimize President Bush’s visibility, many of these changes have…

The Washington Post reports on a rebuke to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by the Iranian Parliament, as they impeach a minister for inflating his resume. An Ahmadinejad aide was fired after unsuccessfully attempting to bribe MPs not to impeach. Washington Post: Iran’s parliament voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to impeach a cabinet minister who has been a close…

A new website allows journalists and poll-watchers to track polling problems in realtime as voters report on their ballot experience. Using the now ubiquitous Google Maps API, a simple interface allows voters or poll watchers to report conditions nationwide. It’s a simple good-or-bad metric (plus comments), might be relatively easy to distort and doesn’t address…

Global Integrity is a non-partisan organization and does not endorse candidates. However, we can endorse the most innovative metrics and analysis tools of the 2008 campaign cycle, and that nod goes to Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com. Telephone polling in the United States is in significant upheaval. First, mobile communications has reduced the accuracy of landline…

Our friends at PATTIRO (Center for Regional Information and Studies) and IHRIP (International Human Rights Internship Program) are “interested in identifying other organizations that are working in the area of the right to education and government budgets.” Please contact Global Integrity ([email protected]) if you need contact information for either group. PATTIRO currently works on budget…

Yesterday, the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) jointly hosted a panel event to discuss the current role of independent media in Russia. The panel was entitled “The Struggle for Press Freedom in Russia: The Role of Independent Regional Newspapers” and it featured Anna Koshman who runs a…