Peculiarities of Voting during Pandemic Period: International Experience and Russian Practice
Research Article
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Tatiana Alexandrovna Nevskaya
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Nevskaya_t@mail.ru
Elibrary Author_id 838768How to CiteNevskaya T.A. Peculiarities of Voting during Pandemic Period: International Experience and Russian Practice. Vlast’ (The Authority). 2021. Vol. 29. No. 5. P. 103-107. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31171/vlast.v29i5.8541
Abstract
The relevance of the issue under study is determined by the potential for postponing the election date in the context of the spread of COVID-19 infection. The pandemic called into question the ability to comply with the main stages of elections, and also made it necessary to hold them in new, extreme conditions in which governments needed to develop and then quickly implement a set of measures to protect the life and health of citizens. In this article, the author analyzes the problem of holding elections in a pandemic in a comparative aspect: the international experience was presented in the framework of comparison with the Russian one. The author focuses on the most significant and requiring resolution issues related to election campaigns in 2020 in the Russian Federation and in foreign countries, assesses the advantages and disadvantages of the dissemination of forms and methods of remote voting.Keywords:elections; election campaign; voting; pandemic; COVID-19; emergency; state of emergency; high alertAuthor Biography
Tatiana Alexandrovna Nevskaya, Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityCand.Sci. (Pol.Sci.), Senior Lecturer of Chair of Political Science and Sociology of Political Processes, Faculty of SociologyReferences
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APANevskaya, T. A. (2021). Peculiarities of Voting during Pandemic Period: International Experience and Russian Practice. Vlast’ (The Authority), 29(5), 103-107. https://doi.org/10.31171/vlast.v29i5.8541IssueSectionPOLITICAL PROCESSES AND PRACTICESFollowing the submission of the manuscript to the Publisher, the author binds oneself not to publish it somewhere else without permission of the Publisher.