TY - JOUR
AU - Haggard, Stephan
AB - Research has demonstrated how membership in more democratic regional intergovernmental organizations (ROs) can strengthen the prospects for democracy. However, a significant number of ROs are dominated by autocratic members who have quite different preferences: to limit democratic contagion and consolidate authoritarian rule against democratic challengers. We outline a menu of mechanisms through which ROs with authoritarian memberships might have pernicious effects on the prospects for democratic rule. We use cross-national quantitative analyses to demonstrate that membership in more deeply authoritarian international organizations is associated with autocratization. We supplement the quantitative results with an analysis of twenty-nine of the most authoritarian ROs and illustrative case studies. The multi-method approach strengthens inference by showing that authoritarian international organizations do in fact engage in behaviors inimical to democratic rule.
TI - Stabilizing Authoritarian Rule: The Role of International Organizations
JF - International Studies Quarterly
DO - 10.1093/isq/sqad031
DA - 2023-05-17
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/stabilizing-authoritarian-rule-the-role-of-international-organizations-eZtiRjYmGb
VL - 67
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -