About the author Abdurashid Solijonov is a member of the Electoral Processes Programme at International IDEA. He holds a Masters in Science from Surrey University and Tsukuba University, and specializes in comparative research. He has been working with International IDEA’s Global Database on Elections and Democracy (GDB) since joining the Institute in 2012, and is responsible for the management, updating and development of the GDB’s election-related data sets. Before joining International IDEA, he worked for the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement’s Data Processing Center in Hamburg as a research analyst. Prior to that, he coordinated several national-level projects on educational assessment and statistics in Uzbekistan. 66