Collaborative Research: Voter Mobilization and Electoral Subversion in the Workplace

合作研究：选民动员和工作场所的选举颠覆

• 批准号: 1324281
• 负责人: Timothy Frye
• 金额: $ 8.24万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-03-15 至 2018-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1324281&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Voter; Mobilization; Electoral

This award satisfies Division B, Title V, Sec. 543 of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act of 2013 (P.L. 113-6, enacted on March 26, 2013). Intellectual Merit: The project is important to US national security interests because it addresses economic coercion that undermines democracy. Scholars have long recognized that rulers in non democracies can extend their tenure by subverting elections, focusing on ballot-box fraud, repression, turnout-buying, vote buying, patronage spending, and the co-optation of opposition elites. However, they have largely overlooked one prominent form of electoral subversion in contemporary hybrid regimes: the coercive mobilization of voters by employers. In many countries, employers - firm managers, supervisors, CEOs, landlords, bosses, directors and so on - use their leverage over workers to induce them to turn out and/or vote a specific way. Using surveys of 1) firm managers in Russia and 2) residents of Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Honduras, Algeria, Lebanon, Mozambique, Botswana, South Africa, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Cambodia, this research seeks to identify the conditions under which firm managers apply political pressure on their employees during elections.This research sheds light on an understudied means by which rulers in hybrid regimes subvert elections and forestall democratization. It also identifies how the structure of the economy affects a country's prospects for regime change. In addition, while much of what we know about clientelism suggests that it is largely confined to poor, rural settings with tight-knit social networks, this research explores how clientelist exchange can persist in modern, industrial settings. Broader Impacts: By identifying the conditions that allow leaders to subvert elections via the workplace, this research will help policymakers and the democracy assistance community to develop programs that improve the integrity of elections. More specifically, the proposed research will lead to the development of vote monitoring techniques that can detect workplace electoral subversion and informational programs that can be deployed by NGOs to reduce the incidence of economic coercion in the workplace. The proposed research will also show how incomplete economic reform, which leaves firms dependent on the state, can make workers' voting rights vulnerable to infringement. Thus, this project will help policymakers understand how economic reforms that reduce state power over firms can help promote political liberalization. Finally, this research contributes to our understanding of why and when hybrid regimes break down; an important public policy consideration in its own right.

该奖项符合SEC第五章B组的要求。《2013年综合及进一步继续拨款法案》(2013年3月26日制定的第113-6号法律公告)第543条。智力价值：该项目对美国国家安全利益很重要，因为它解决了破坏民主的经济胁迫问题。学者们早就认识到，非民主国家的尺子可以通过颠覆选举来延长他们的任期，这些选举的重点是投票箱舞弊、镇压、拉票、收买选票、赞助支出和拉拢反对派精英。然而，他们在很大程度上忽视了当代混合政权中一种突出的选举颠覆形式：雇主强制动员选民。在许多国家，雇主--公司经理、监事、首席执行官、房东、老板、董事等--利用他们对工人的影响力，诱使他们以特定的方式投票和/或投票。通过对俄罗斯企业管理者以及俄罗斯、乌克兰、格鲁吉亚、洪都拉斯、阿尔及利亚、黎巴嫩、莫桑比克、博茨瓦纳、南非、马来西亚、印度尼西亚和柬埔寨居民的调查，这项研究试图找出企业管理者在选举期间对员工施加政治压力的条件。这项研究揭示了混合政权中的尺子如何颠覆选举和阻止民主化的一种未被研究的方式。它还确定了经济结构如何影响一国政权更迭的前景。此外，虽然我们对裙带主义的大部分了解表明，它主要局限于拥有紧密社交网络的贫穷农村环境，但这项研究探索了客户交换如何在现代工业环境中持续存在。更广泛的影响：通过确定允许领导人通过工作场所颠覆选举的条件，这项研究将帮助政策制定者和民主援助社区制定改善选举廉正的计划。更具体地说，拟议的研究将导致开发能够检测工作场所选举颠覆行为的投票监测技术，以及非政府组织可以部署的信息计划，以减少工作场所经济胁迫的发生率。这项拟议的研究还将表明，不完全的经济改革使企业依赖于国家，从而使工人的投票权容易受到侵犯。因此，这个项目将帮助政策制定者理解减少国家对企业权力的经济改革如何有助于促进政治自由化。最后，这项研究有助于我们理解混合政权为什么以及何时崩溃；这本身就是一个重要的公共政策考虑因素。