Dictatorships and the Globalization of Repression
2020-07
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Dictatorships and the Globalization of Repression
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Dictatorships today are as violent as they were during the Cold War. This has surprised international observers, who a few years ago thought globalization would help protect human rights in these countries. Despite international efforts to hold abusive dictators accountable, human rights appear to have gotten worse in many dictatorships. To explain this puzzle, I first note how globalization threatens the political and economic interests of elites in dictatorships. In turn, elites demand compensation from the dictator. Where elites can credibly threaten the dictator with removal, the dictator is likely to increase repression to placate allies and avoid a coup. This compensation dynamic between autocrats and their ruling coalition explains why some dictatorships respond with increased violence to globalization while others do not. It also helps explain how different elements of globalization interact with each other in the domestic politics of autocracies to improve or weaken human rights.
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University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. July 2020. Major: Political Science. Advisor: David Samuels. 1 computer file (PDF); vii, 183 pages.
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Kaire De Francisco, Jose. (2020). Dictatorships and the Globalization of Repression. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/216381.
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