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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.
List 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
- Bibliography
About the author
Dov H. Levin is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Hong Kong. His main research topic is on the effects of foreign interference with a special focus on the causes, effects, and effectiveness of partisan electoral interventions.
