The cost of exposing cheating: International election monitoring, fraud, and post Bjornlund, Eric (2004) Beyond Free and Fair: Monitoring Elections and Building Democracy. Washington Hyde, Susan D, Marinov, Nikolay (2008) Does information facilitate self-enforcing democracy? The role of international election monitoring Beyond Free and Fair: Monitoring Elections and Building Democracy. Eric C. Bjornlund. Woodrow Wilson Center Press and the Johns Hopkins University Press. 2004. 383 pp. Eric Bjornlund opens his study of international and domestic election monitoring with a brief assessment of the 2000 U.S. Presidential election.