Political Orientation, Information and Perceptions of Election Fraud: Evidence from Russia

Citizen perceptions of the extent of fraud in a given authoritarian election can differ widely. This article builds on the literature on information acquisition and processing in democracies to argue that much of this variation is due to the way in which citizens’ underlying political orientations a...

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Veröffentlicht in:British journal of political science 2017-07, Vol.47 (3), p.589-608
1. Verfasser: Robertson, Graeme
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Citizen perceptions of the extent of fraud in a given authoritarian election can differ widely. This article builds on the literature on information acquisition and processing in democracies to argue that much of this variation is due to the way in which citizens’ underlying political orientations affect both the kind of information they gather and how they process that information. These differences in information acquisition and processing have important implications for how election monitoring reports, access to the internet and other sources of information are likely to affect the stability of contemporary authoritarian regimes. The theory is tested using observational data and a survey experiment from the Russian presidential election of 2012.
ISSN:0007-1234
1469-2112
DOI:10.1017/S0007123415000356