Meddling in Elections

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

The papers in this panel study the various effects and aspects of a foreign policy tool that has become (in)famous since the Russian intervention in the 2016 U.S. elections for the populist Trump campaign: partisan electoral interventions. These are situations where foreign powers intervene in the elections of other countries, using various covert and overt methods, in an attempt to determine the identity of the winner of that election. The papers in this panel try to study various questions related to this understudied foreign policy tool using a variety of methodologies and data sources.

Sub Unit

• DIVISION 20: Foreign Policy

Individual Presentations

• Public Opinion and Foreign Electoral Intervention - Michael R. Tomz, Stanford University; Jessica L. P. Weeks, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• The Origins of Candidate Conditioned Cooperation in International Relations - Nikolay V. Marinov, University of Houston; Johannes Bubeck, University of Mannheim

• Does Meddling Pay? The Effects of Partisan Electoral Interventions on Trade - Dov H. Levin, University of Hong Kong

• From Monitoring to Meddling: How Foreign Actors Shape Local Trust in Elections - Sarah S. Bush, Yale University; Lauren Prather, University of California, San Diego

Chair

• Judith Kelley Duke University

Discussants

• Joshua D. Kertzer Harvard University

• Dan Reiter Emory University