Linkage to the West and Electoral Manipulation
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1478929920920104" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1478929920920104</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1478929920920104" target="_blank" >10.1177/1478929920920104</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Linkage to the West and Electoral Manipulation
Original language description
The relationship between linkage to the West and the survival of political regimes has gained increasing attention in recent years. Despite this attention, one aspect of this linkage remains poorly understood, and that is the effect of linkage to the West on electoral manipulation. Scholars have suggested that linkage to the West raises the cost of government abuse because it increases the probability of Western governments taking action in response to reported abuse. This assumption then suggests that incumbents should choose the forms of repression more wisely. Consequently, in cases of the higher level of linkage to the West incumbents are less likely to use the more visible forms of repression and manipulation. I test the aforementioned assumptions on time series, cross-national data set with observations of 147 elections in competitive authoritarian regimes between 1990 and 2010. I find that extensive international relations to the West have only minimal and statistically non-significant effect on visible forms of repression and manipulation. These results contribute to our understanding of international linkage as they show that linkage to the West does not provide sufficient protection to opposition leaders and groups.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Political Studies Review
ISSN
1478-9299
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
19
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
262-273
UT code for WoS article
000533951600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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