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Title	Replication data for: Economic sanctions, repression capacity, and human rights

Identifier	https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/OZZTF2

Creator	Sinjae Kang Sangmin Lee Taehee Whang

Publisher	Harvard Dataverse

Description	Provided are replication data and code files for the following study: What is the relationship between economic sanctions and the human rights conditions of target countries? We suggest a two-stage mechanism to explain how sanctions deteriorate the human rights condition in the target country. In the repressive capacity stage, sanctions increase the capacity with which the target government can use for political repression. We introduce the concepts of political corruption, judicial dependence, and the government's media censorship as political repression tools of target governments. In the violation stage, the increased capacity to repress leads to worsening the target’s human rights condition. We also find that, while human rights sanctions are not likely to increase political repression in the target country, non-human rights sanctions are more likely to increase the political repression therein. Furthermore, such increased capacity for repression, specifically political corruption and judiciary dependence, in the target country adversely affected the human rights condition.

Subject	Social Sciences Human Rights Economic Sanctions State Capacity

Date	2024-02-23

Contributor	Lee, Sangmin

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