Regional protest and electoral fraud: evidence from analysis of new data on Russian protest

Lankina, Tomila and Skovoroda, Rodion (2016). Regional protest and electoral fraud: evidence from analysis of new data on Russian protest. East European Politics, 33(2) pp. 253–274.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2016.1261018

Abstract

Does electoral fraud encourage post-electoral protests? To explore the likelihood that citizens would pick up on electoral irregularities perpetrated in their region and engage in post-electoral protest we analyse regional protest event data and voting results for 95,415 precincts in Russia's 2012 presidential elections. We find that regional fraud is associated with post-electoral sub-national protests. Our analysis has important theoretical and policy implications. Protests that not only target specific issues like fraud, but show awareness of where it had been perpetrated can be much more effective than those where blame attribution is vague and generic.

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• Item ORO ID
• 69558
• Item Type
• Journal Item
• ISSN
• 2159-9165
• Keywords
• protests; electoral fraud; last-digit fraud detection method; Russia; sub-national; local; competitive authoritarian; electoral authoritarian; uncertainty; democracy
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Business and Law (FBL) > Business > Department for Accounting and Finance
  Faculty of Business and Law (FBL) > Business
  Faculty of Business and Law (FBL)
• Copyright Holders
• © 2016 Informa UK
• Related URLs
• • http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/68224/
• Depositing User
• Rodion Skovoroda