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6 - Foreign Interference in Elections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2022

Sara Wallace Goodman
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine
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How do citizens respond to information on electoral interference in their country? Chapter 6 presents the second vignette survey experiment, and we again see individuals taking distinct positions on citizenship norms that correspond to partisanship. Like in polarization, we see status quo challengers respond to threat. Unlike polarization, they respond not with norms of liberal democratic beliefs but with behavior – that is, expectations of a more active, engaged citizenry. Moreover, we also observe a strong status quo bias, in which winners of the election in question generally do nothing. Where norms are affected for citizens supporting incumbent power holders, we observe impatience (US) and demobilization (UK). Meanwhile, the partisan left – as governing outsiders and losers of the elections in question – are more likely to value vigilance – watching the government (US, UK) and understanding how politics and the government work (UK, Germany), alongside other active, engaged citizenship attributes. Evidence of interference in majoritarian systems, compared to Germany’s consensus political system, produces stronger partisan differences.

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Citizenship in Hard Times
How Ordinary People Respond to Democratic Threat
, pp. 145 - 176
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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