Monitors and Meddlers

Sarah Sunn Bush is associate professor of political science at Yale University. She is the author of The Taming of Democracy Assistance: Why Democracy Promotion Does Not Confront Dictators (Cambridge, 2015) and has held fellowships at the Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania, the Harvard Kennedy School, and Uppsala University. Lauren Prather is associate professor of political science in the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of several publications appearing in such journals as American Political Science Review and International Organization, and received the Hellman Fellowship from University of California, San Diego in 2018.

• 1. Introduction; 2. How foreign actors influence election credibility; 3. Research strategy; 4. Monitors' effects; 5. Meddlers' effects; 6. Intervener identity; 7. Individual vote choice; 8. Elections with foreign influences.

'How do citizens respond to external involvement in their elections? Sarah Bush and Lauren Prather have crafted a methodologically sophisticated, conceptually novel and genuinely comparative investigation of this increasingly important question, using experimental survey designs and careful case studies to show the unexpected ways in which international election monitors and foreign electoral meddling impact perceptions of democratic legitimacy and political stability.' Marc Lynch, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, and Director, Project on Middle East Political Science, George Washington University