INTERNET VOTING IN AUTHORITARIAN CONTEXTS: TESTING ITS IMPACT ON DOMINANT PARTY SUPPORT IN RUSSIA.
This study examines the effects of internet voting on regional support for Russia's dominant party, United Russia, in the 2021 State Duma elections. Grounded in the theoretical framework of digital authoritarianism, we hypothesize that internet voting (through its technical opacity, centralized infr...
| Publicado en: | Demokratizatsiya Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 275 - 299 |
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Elliott School of International Affairs
Summer2025
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