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Author: Sarah Sunn Bush Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1009204297 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 327
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Foreign influences on elections are widespread. Although foreign interventions around elections differ markedly-in terms of when and why they occur, and whether they are even legal-they all have enormous potential to influence citizens in the countries where elections are held. Bush and Prather explain how and why outside interventions influence local trust in elections, a critical factor for democracy and stability. Whether foreign actors enhance or diminish electoral trust depends on who is intervening, what political party citizens support, and where the election takes place. The book draws on diverse evidence, including new surveys conducted around elections with varying levels of democracy in Georgia, Tunisia, and the United States. Its insights about public opinion shed light on why leaders sometimes invite foreign influences on elections and why the candidates that win elections do not do more to respond to credible evidence of foreign meddling.
Author: Sarah Sunn Bush Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1009204297 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 327
Book Description
Foreign influences on elections are widespread. Although foreign interventions around elections differ markedly-in terms of when and why they occur, and whether they are even legal-they all have enormous potential to influence citizens in the countries where elections are held. Bush and Prather explain how and why outside interventions influence local trust in elections, a critical factor for democracy and stability. Whether foreign actors enhance or diminish electoral trust depends on who is intervening, what political party citizens support, and where the election takes place. The book draws on diverse evidence, including new surveys conducted around elections with varying levels of democracy in Georgia, Tunisia, and the United States. Its insights about public opinion shed light on why leaders sometimes invite foreign influences on elections and why the candidates that win elections do not do more to respond to credible evidence of foreign meddling.
Author: Sarah Sunn Bush Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1009204319 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 327
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Investigates how foreign actors influence citizens' trust in elections, and cases where outside intervention has enhanced or undermined election integrity.
Author: Judith G. Kelley Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400842522 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 359
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In recent decades, governments and NGOs--in an effort to promote democracy, freedom, fairness, and stability throughout the world--have organized teams of observers to monitor elections in a variety of countries. But when more organizations join the practice without uniform standards, are assessments reliable? When politicians nonetheless cheat and monitors must return to countries even after two decades of engagement, what is accomplished? Monitoring Democracy argues that the practice of international election monitoring is broken, but still worth fixing. By analyzing the evolving interaction between domestic and international politics, Judith Kelley refutes prevailing arguments that international efforts cannot curb government behavior and that democratization is entirely a domestic process. Yet, she also shows that democracy promotion efforts are deficient and that outside actors often have no power and sometimes even do harm. Analyzing original data on over 600 monitoring missions and 1,300 elections, Kelley grounds her investigation in solid historical context as well as studies of long-term developments over several elections in fifteen countries. She pinpoints the weaknesses of international election monitoring and looks at how practitioners and policymakers might help to improve them.
Author: Charles Edgley Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429971222 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 288
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This book examines the emergent meddling phenomenon with insightful and provocative descriptions about why meddling is so appealing and how meddling is packaged and marketed. It is a testimony to a life filled with accomplishment, loyalty, friendship, laughter, and love.
Author: Gilbert M. Khadiagala Publisher: Republic of Letters ISBN: Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 296
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Drawing from cases of mediated settlements in Eastern Africa, this book provides an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of African inteveners in civil wars against the backdrop of theories of negotiations and mediation.
Author: Johannes Bubeck Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108661866 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 293
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When and how do states intervene in elections in other countries? Foreign interveners may aim to further the process of clean elections, or they may support the campaign of a candidate they like. It could also be in their best interest to do both at the same time. Bubeck and Marinov systematically analyze various scenarios using a dataset covering more than three hundred elections in over a hundred countries. They show both theoretically and empirically that states with a liberal mission, such as the United States, combine promoting democracy with helping their political allies win office. Political divisions invite foreign interventions, and foreign interference, in turn, makes targeted societies more polarized along political lines. Whilst the authors argue that foreign interventions do not always harm democracy and may even help the cause of free elections, they also show how elections can turn into proxy wars, in which powerful states compete against each other, through their local allies.
Author: Sarah Sunn Bush
Author: Sarah Sunn Bush
Author: Sarah Sunn Bush
Author: Judith G. Kelley
Author: Charles Edgley
Author: Gilbert M. Khadiagala
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Author: Barbara Geddes
Author: Steven Feldstein
Author: Johannes Bubeck
Author: R. H. Taylor