References:

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights

https://www.coe.int/en/web/human-rights-convention#:~:text=The%20European%20Convention%20on%20Human%20Rights%20is%20the%20first%20Council,prerequisite%20for%20joining%20the%20Organisation

https://www.coe.int/en/web/human-rights-convention/elections

https://civicsacademy.co.za/what-are-free-and-fair-elections/

https://www.coe.int/en/web/human-rights-convention/elections

https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/rule-law-and-democracy-addressing-gap-between-policies-and-practices

https://www.principlesofdemocracy.org/law

https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/rule-law-and-democracy-addressing-gap-between-policies-and-practices

https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/governance/innovative-citizen-participation-and-new-democratic-institutions_339306da-en

https://www.congressfoundation.org/news/blog/1919-what-constitutes-effective-citizen-deliberation

https://zenodo.org/record/7198511#.Y8lAfHZBy3C

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/kykl.12295

https://www.russellsage.org/sites/all/files/u4/Verba.pdf

https://www.coe.int/en/web/participatory-democracy/about-participatory-democracy

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/cpworkshop/papers/Boix.pdf

https://rri-tools.eu/-/deliberative-futures-toolkit-toward-future-oriented-communities-and-decision-making

https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev.polisci.8.032904.154633

https://www.oecd.org/gov/open-government/eight-ways-to-institutionalise-deliberative-democracy.htm