Electoral Interference: USA vs USSR/Russia on Vimeo
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The map displays known instances of U.S. and Soviet/Russian electoral interference from 1946 through 2000.
The underlying data comes from:
Dov H. Levin 2016. “Partisan Electoral Interventions by the Great Powers: Introducing the PEIG Dataset” Conflict Management and Peace Science Early View. The dataset is available by request: dovhlevin.com/datasets
The audio includes speeches from:
– Harry Truman, “A Public Man Must Live in the Present” (1955)
– Ronald Reagan, “Evil Empire” speech (1983)
– George H.W. Bush in response to shoot-down of Iranian passenger flight by US Navy (1988)
Visualization by Will Geary. Made with code using Processing.