Sarah Sunn Bush (Yale University, Connecticut), Lauren Prather (University of California, San Diego)
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...
Foreign influences on elections are widespread. Although foreign interventions around elections differ markedly-in terms of when and why they occur, a...