This volume offers a number of forensic indicators of election fraud applied to official election
returns, and tests and illustrates their application in Russia and Ukraine. Included are the …

Democratic societies are built around the principle of free and fair elections, and that each
citizen's vote should count equally. National elections can be regarded as large-scale social …

We analyze the determinants of corruption in Russia using law enforcement data on
corruption incidents for a panel of 79 Russian regions for the period 2004–13. We find that …

To what extent does electoral manipulation follow ethnic lines in Russia? Using an original
dataset based on raion-level data, we find that the “ethnic component” of electoral …

How do independent media affect regime support in an autocracy? We carry out two field
experiments in Russia by promoting the country's only independent online TV channel to a …

This book argues that explaining judicial independence-considered the fundamental
question of comparative law and politics-requires a perspective that spans the …

We consider the question of whether Russia's greatly weakened political parties might
continue to exert an influence on public opinion in twenty‐first century Russia. To do so, we …

Elections in Russia are widely believed to be fraudulent in various ways, a claim some
support especially by looking at voter turnout, others by looking at vote counts' digits. We use …

In this paper, we argue that the occurrence of electoral manipulation in Russia has been
driven, in part, by diffusion across neighboring raions through emulation, incentives, and …

This paper explores the relationship between ethnicity and electoral support for the
dominant party in the 2003, 2007, and 2011 Russian legislative elections by leveraging a …