Meddling in the Ballot Box
The Causes and Effects of Partisan Electoral Interventions
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 6 October 2020
- ISBN 9780197519899
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 155x231x22 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 17 201
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Short description:
Meddling in the Ballot Box is the first book to focus exclusively on partisan electoral interventions. In these situations, such as Russia's intervention in the 2016 US elections, foreign powers try to determine election results in another country. Dov Levin examines why such interventions occur and what their effects are. Using historical case studies and an original statistical analysis, he identifies the conditions for meddling. A local actor agrees to collude with the intervener, and the great power feels threatened by another actor with divergent preferences. Furthermore, electoral interventions frequently affect election results and in many situations determine the winner.
MoreLong description:
Why do world powers sometimes try to determine who wins an election in another country? What effects does such meddling have on the targeted elections results? Great powers have attempted for centuries to intervene in elections occurring in other states through various covert and overt methods, with the American intervention in the 2013 Kenyan elections and the Russian intervention in the 2016 US elections being just two recent examples. Indeed, the Americans and the Soviets/Russians intervened in one out of every nine national-level executive elections between 1946 and 2000. Meddling in the Ballot Box is the first book to provide a comprehensive analysis of foreign meddling in elections from the dawn of the modern era to the 2016 Russian intervention in the US election. Dov Levin shows that partisan electoral interventions are usually an "inside job" occurring only if a significant domestic actor within the target wants it. Likewise, a great power will not intervene unless it fears that its interests are endangered by an opposing party or candidate with very different preferences. He also finds that partisan electoral interventions frequently have significant effects on the results--sufficient in many situations to determine the winner. Such interference also tends to be more effective when it is conducted overtly. However, it is usually ineffective, if not counterproductive, when done in a founding election. A revelatory account that explains why major powers have meddled so frequently across the entire postwar era, Meddling in the Ballot Box also provides us with a framework for assessing the cyber-future of interference.
Levin's book is a fine marriage of quantitative and qualitative analysis.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction: Hiding in Plain Sight
Chapter 2: Why They Meddle in Elections- and What are the Effects on the Results
Chapter 3: Throwing Their Hat Into the Ring: When Electoral Interventions Occur
Chapter 4: Staying on the Sidelines: When Foreign Powers Decline Intervention Opportunities
Chapter 5: Surveying the Landscape: An Overview of U.S. and Soviet/Russian Partisan Electoral Interventions, 1946-2000
Chapter 6: Dragging Them Over the Finish Line: the Effects of Partisan Electoral Interventions on Election Results
Chapter 7: Delving In: Single Election Level Analysis of the Effects of Electoral Interventions
Chapter 8: The (In)famous Election: Analyzing the Russian Intervention in the 2016 U.S. Elections
Chapter 9: Conclusions
Appendix A
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