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Podcast: New Books in American Politics
Episode: Sarah Sunn Bush and Lauren Prather, "Monitors and Meddlers: How Foreign Actors Influence Local Trust in Elections" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Description: 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. Monitors and Meddlers: How Foreign Actors Influence Local Trust in Elections (Cambridge UP, 2022) explains 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 draws on div...