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Domestic Politics and Requests for UNESCO’s International Assistance Program

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Domestic Politics and Requests for UNESCO’s International Assistance Program
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/FE2GDO
 
Creator Hyo Won Lee
Yena Kim
Whasun Jho
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Recently, the world has witnessed increased participation from nondemocratic countries in international cultural institutions, such as UNESCO’s International Assistance (IA) program. This study poses the question of why several authoritarian countries request IA programs more frequently than others do. In addition to economic and international factors, we argue that differences in domestic institutions within autocracies influence the decision-making of such states in requesting IA programs because these programs can be a useful tool for several incumbent regimes to generate public support or maintain their status. We implement negative binomial regressions for 131 authoritarian countries between 1979 and 2014 and demonstrate that politically competitive regimes are more likely to request IA programs than non-competitive ones. The findings suggest that authoritarian regimes with competitive political institutions are likely to utilize the programs of cultural international regimes.
 
Subject Social Sciences
international cultural regime
competitive autocracy
political competitiveness
political regimes
International Assistance (IA)
UNESCO
 
Contributor Interactions, International