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Partisan Electoral Interventions by the Great Powers:

Introducing the PEIG Dataset

Levin, Dov H. 2019. “Partisan Electoral Interventions by the Great Powers: Introducing the
REFERENCE PEIG Dataset.” Conflict Management and Peace Science 36(1): 88-106.

CONTEXT DATASET NOVELTY

Partisan Electoral Intervention ▸ Data is organized in a more systematic manner

▸ Provides a "universe of cases" for further in-depth analysis
a situation where a foreign power
▸ Can be used to advance research in Comparative Politics
tries to influence the election
▸ Helps to study various questions about electoral interventions
results in another country in an
overt or covert manner

Why is it important to study? DATA COLLECTION

▸ Decreasing popularity of military
interventions Covert Interventions
▸ Common form of intervention
▸ Significant feature of domestic
politics

CODING PROCESS

TO BE CODED AS ELECTORAL
INTERVENTION, AN ACT
SHOULD
Overt Interventions
▸ be done intentionally to help
or hurt one of the contesting
sides

▸ incur significant costs:

immediate and/or longer-
term/potential costs

LIMITATIONS DATASET DESCRIPTION

➊ The ▸ 117 PEI cases in 1946-2000 ▸ 11.3% (1/9) of 937

time period is
▸ The US (69%) and USSR/Russia (31%) elections were PEIs
limited ▸ 53 military
▸ Dataset needs an intervention cases
update ▸ 60 target
countries

➋ Focuses only on the US

and USSR/Russia
▸ The US target:
Asia
▸ Russia's target:
▸ Expansion of the
Europe
interveners list is needed

Access to dataset: https://www.dovhlevin.com/datasets