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Replication Data for: Economic Sanctions and the Domestic Sources of Defiance to Foreign Pressure in Target Countries: The Case of Government Predation

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Title Replication Data for: Economic Sanctions and the Domestic Sources of Defiance to Foreign Pressure in Target Countries: The Case of Government Predation
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/9H9ROX
 
Creator Dursun Peksen
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description What domestic policies do targeted regimes pursue to survive economic
sanctions? Despite an abundance of research on the use and effectiveness
of sanctions, scant research has been conducted on the domestic sources
of the target’s defiance to foreign pressure. This study explores the extent
to which sanctions prompt the target regimes to manipulate the domestic
economic conditions through arbitrary confiscation and redistribution of
private property and wealth. It is argued that economic coercion poses a
direct threat to political survival and coercive capacity of the target
government. The external threat of sanctions consequently creates
incentives for politically insecure elites to engage in the policy of predation
to counter the negative economic effects of the coercion on themselves
and their constituency. Using time-series cross-national data from 1960 to
2005, the results indicate that as sanctions exact significant economic
damage on the economy, the target government is more likely to pursue
predatory policies. Focusing on the government use of predatory policies
to evade foreign pressure, this study expands the current understanding of
sanction ineffectiveness in pressuring the government to acquiesce to
external demands. The findings of the study also show that economic
coercion might become counterproductive, inadvertently contributing to the
deterioration of the economic security and well-being of citizens in target
countries.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Contributor Replication, FPA