%0 Journal Article
%T Linking Preference Falsification and Election Fraud in Electoral Autocracies: The Case of Russia
%A Kirill Kalinin
%J Political Studies
%@ 1467-9248
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0032321717706013
%X This study sheds new light on whether responses to public opinion polls, namely, preference falsification, can affect the level of election fraud by employing Kuran¡¯s model of preference falsification, which is empirically tested on the data collected from the most recent presidential campaign in Russia (2012). My research findings reveal the presence of a statistically significant effect of preference falsification on election fraud, thus enabling me to conclude that preference falsification is, indeed, conducive to election fraud. My findings can be generalised to a broad set of electoral autocracies, enabling scholars to get a better understanding of the mechanism by which survey polls can incentivise officials to commit election fraud
%K Russia/Former Soviet Union
%K preference falsification
%K election fraud
%K election forensics
%K electoral autocracies
%K hybrid regimes
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0032321717706013