Foreign Election Interference

Session Submission Type: Virtual Full Paper Panel

Session Description

Since the Russian intervention in the 2016 US election there has been a great increase in research on foreign election interference (partisan electoral interventions) on various aspects. 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. This panel brings together some of the latest research on this topic focusing on three key aspects: the effects of such meddling on the target, the effects of such meddling on third parties and the factors that determine public support within some key intervening countries to such interference when conducted by their own country.

Sub Unit

• Division 20: Foreign Policy

Individual Presentations

• Public Support for U.S. Intervention in Foreign Elections - Michael R. Tomz, Stanford University; Jessica L. P. Weeks, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• The Impacts of Russian Election Interference on Allies' Confidence in the US - Benjamin E. Goldsmith, Australian National University; Yusaku Horiuchi, Dartmouth College

• Do Unto Others? Americans Attitudes on Conducting Electoral Interventions Abroad - Paul Musgrave, University of Massachusetts; Dov H. Levin, University of Hong Kong

• What Have You Done for Me Lately? Electoral interventions Effects on Cooperation - Marshall Palmer, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University

Chair

• Adam E. Casey University of Michigan

Discussants

• Lauren Prather University of California, San Diego

• Adam E. Casey University of Michigan