Our study joins recent scholarship that examines the political impact of economic sanctions on targeted societies. While some studies find that sanctions destabilize the incumbent leadership of targeted countries, others reveal no relationship between sanctions and political survival. In this study, we seek to clarify the effect of economic sanctions on leader survival by identifying and addressing the contrasting and conditional expectations for the political effects of sanctions underspecified in previous research. We also provide the most comprehensive statistical test, for the 1945 to 2006 period. Our analysis shows that economic sanctions help targeted autocratic leaders to extend their stay in power. However, sanctions are found to ex...
How do sanctions affect incumbent electoral performance during elections? Although existing literatu...
Previous research has shown that sanctions have a negative impact on the level of democracy in targe...
This article seeks to analyze the impact that sanctions have on democracy. We argue that economic sa...
This paper examines whether economic sanctions destabilize authoritarian rulers. We argue that the e...
Democratic sanctions as forms of foreign pressure are mostly preferred after the Cold War period by ...
This paper examines whether economic sanctions, or threats of sanctions, destabilize regime leaders....
What domestic policies do targeted regimes pursue to survive economic sanctions? Despite an abundanc...
There is some consensus in the literature that economic sanctions targeting authoritarian regimes ar...
A theory of sanction duration that focuses on differences between democratic and nondemocratic state...
This paper enquires into whether economic sanctions are effective in destabilizing authoritarian rul...
Recent empirical work scrutinizes the ability of economic sanctions destabilize targeted leaders. Li...
Despite the low success rate indicated by scholarly assessments, economic sanctions remain a commonl...
Countries use economic sanctions as a way to force their opponents to make policy concessions. Such ...
Sanctions are presumed to work on the logic of a cost/benefit analysis, where the actors make conces...
Do economic sanctions against target countries work as sender countries intend? If so, what factors ...
How do sanctions affect incumbent electoral performance during elections? Although existing literatu...
Previous research has shown that sanctions have a negative impact on the level of democracy in targe...
This article seeks to analyze the impact that sanctions have on democracy. We argue that economic sa...
This paper examines whether economic sanctions destabilize authoritarian rulers. We argue that the e...
Democratic sanctions as forms of foreign pressure are mostly preferred after the Cold War period by ...
This paper examines whether economic sanctions, or threats of sanctions, destabilize regime leaders....
What domestic policies do targeted regimes pursue to survive economic sanctions? Despite an abundanc...
There is some consensus in the literature that economic sanctions targeting authoritarian regimes ar...
A theory of sanction duration that focuses on differences between democratic and nondemocratic state...
This paper enquires into whether economic sanctions are effective in destabilizing authoritarian rul...
Recent empirical work scrutinizes the ability of economic sanctions destabilize targeted leaders. Li...
Despite the low success rate indicated by scholarly assessments, economic sanctions remain a commonl...
Countries use economic sanctions as a way to force their opponents to make policy concessions. Such ...
Sanctions are presumed to work on the logic of a cost/benefit analysis, where the actors make conces...
Do economic sanctions against target countries work as sender countries intend? If so, what factors ...
How do sanctions affect incumbent electoral performance during elections? Although existing literatu...
Previous research has shown that sanctions have a negative impact on the level of democracy in targe...
This article seeks to analyze the impact that sanctions have on democracy. We argue that economic sa...