Defending democracies: combating foreign election interference in a digital age

by Hollis, Duncan B. Ohlin, Jens David

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Full title :Defending democracies : combating foreign election interference in a digital age / edited by Duncan B. Hollis, Jens David Ohlin.

Summary

"Election interference is one of the most widely discussed international phenomena of the last five years. Russian covert interference in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election elevated the topic into a national priority, but that experience was far from an isolated one. Evidence of election interference by foreign States or their proxies has become a regular feature of national elections and is likely to get worse in the near future. Information and communication technologies afford those who would interfere with new tools that can operate in ways previously unimaginable: Twitter bots, Facebook advertisements, closed social media platforms, algorithms that prioritize extreme views, disinformation, misinformation, and malware that steals secret campaign communications. Defending Democracies: Combatting Foreign Election Interference in a Digital Age tackles the problem through an interdisciplinary lens and focuses on: (i) defining the problem of foreign election interference, (ii) exploring the solutions that international law might bring to bear, and (iii) considering alternative regulatory frameworks for understanding and addressing the problem. The result is a deeply urgent examination of an old problem on social media steroids, one that implicates the most central institution of liberal democracy-elections. The volume seeks to bring domestic and international perspectives on elections and election law into conversation with other disciplinary frameworks, escaping the typical biases of lawyers-preferring international legal solutions for issues of international relations. Taken together, the chapters in this volume represent a more faithful representation of the broad array of solutions that might be deployed, including international and domestic, legal and extra-legal, ambitious and cautious"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2021

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2021

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (ix, 399 pages) : : illustrations.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780197557006, 0197557007, 9780197556993, 019755699X, 9780197556986, 0197556981
oclc:on1193557802
LC Classification:K3304
Dewey Decimal:342/.07

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Subjects

Corruption électorale Droit des peuples à disposer d'eux-mêmes Election law Election law -- United States Elections -- Corrupt practices Foreign interference in elections Presidents -- Election Presidents -- Elections. -- United Stat… Self-determination, National Souveraineté sovereignty United States