Authors Meets Critics: Workplace Politics: How Politicians and Employers Subvert Elections

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Brief Overview

Drawing on surveys from eight countries, and a wealth of data from Russia, we demonstrate how politicians and employers can diminish voter autonomy, undermine electoral integrity, and skew electoral outcomes by pressuring their workers to vote.

Section

• 29. (Post) Communist Countries

Cosponsor

• 32. Comparative Political Economy

Chair

• Will Pyle, Middlebury College

Participants

• Cesi Cruz, University of Michigan

• Anne Meng, University of Virginia, Main Campus

• Sam Handlin, Swarthmore College

• Jordan Luc Gans-Morse, Northwestern University

• Andrey Semenov, Nazarbayev University

• Ora John Reuter, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

• David Szakonyi, George Washington University