"A Hand upon the Throat of the Nation": Economic Sanctions and State Repression, 1976-2001

By Reed M. Wood. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Claims to Legitimacy Matter: Why Sanctions Fail to Instigate Democratization in Authoritarian Regimes (2014, unknown): “ Previous research has demonstrated that sanctions negatively affect the level of re‐ pression and human rights situation (Peksen 2009; Wood 2008) in targeted regimes, but it has  nonetheless not used repression as an  intervening variable  that mediates  the effect of sanc‐…”
• The Impact of Economic Sanctions on Income Inequality of Target States (2016, background): “Thus, the normative assumption here is that financial sanctions would have more adverse impact on economic outcomes such as poverty or income inequality relative to trade sanctions (Wood, 2008).”