DemocratizationPub Date : 2024-08-22eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2024.2383795
Nicolas Fliess, Ali Kiani, Eva Østergaard-Nielsen
{"title":"Why do autocracies enfranchise their citizens abroad? A large-N event history analysis, 1990-2010.","authors":"Nicolas Fliess, Ali Kiani, Eva Østergaard-Nielsen","doi":"10.1080/13510347.2024.2383795","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13510347.2024.2383795","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Autocratic ruling elites allow elections as a survival strategy. Many authoritarian regimes have taken this tactic one step further, also inviting their diaspora to vote from afar. This may seem puzzling given that elections abroad are difficult to control and provide a platform for exiled regime critics. So far, however, the reasons for autocracies to grant their diaspora voting rights have rarely been explored. In this article, we address this shortcoming. We employ a cross-national, autocratic regime dataset and a discrete-time event history model. We argue that autocracies use diaspora suffrage to repress and co-opt their citizens abroad while legitimizing their rule domestically and internationally. Autocrats are risk-averse and the decision to enfranchise hinges on the characteristics of the diaspora and the regime's need for legitimacy, repression and co-optation after power transitions. We substantiate these claims by demonstrating that autocrats are less likely to enfranchise a diaspora that largely resides in democracies or consists of refugees in democracies. In turn, successful coups render diaspora suffrage adoption more probable. In sum, external voting rights present a critical case to better understand why authoritarian states adopt democratic institutions and wish to connect with their internationally mobile population.</p>","PeriodicalId":47953,"journal":{"name":"Democratization","volume":"32 3","pages":"659-683"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11934954/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143721891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DemocratizationPub Date : 2023-12-28DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2023.2293147
A. Sarkissian, A. Wainscott
{"title":"Benign bureaucracies? Religious affairs ministries as institutions of political control","authors":"A. Sarkissian, A. Wainscott","doi":"10.1080/13510347.2023.2293147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2023.2293147","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47953,"journal":{"name":"Democratization","volume":"32 26","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139148094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DemocratizationPub Date : 2023-12-28DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2023.2293154
Nilgün Eliküçük Yıldırım
{"title":"Legitimation, co-optation, and survival: why is Turkey silent on China’s persecution of Uyghurs?","authors":"Nilgün Eliküçük Yıldırım","doi":"10.1080/13510347.2023.2293154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2023.2293154","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47953,"journal":{"name":"Democratization","volume":"79 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139151873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DemocratizationPub Date : 2023-12-17DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2023.2259318
H. A. Ünver, Arhan S. Ertan
{"title":"Democratization, state capacity and developmental correlates of international artificial intelligence trade","authors":"H. A. Ünver, Arhan S. Ertan","doi":"10.1080/13510347.2023.2259318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2023.2259318","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47953,"journal":{"name":"Democratization","volume":"28 47","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138966137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DemocratizationPub Date : 2023-12-10DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2023.2258812
Cecilia Lero
{"title":"Is community service an act of political resistance? the “community pantry” phenomenon in the Philippines and voter behaviour","authors":"Cecilia Lero","doi":"10.1080/13510347.2023.2258812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2023.2258812","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47953,"journal":{"name":"Democratization","volume":"1129 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138982624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DemocratizationPub Date : 2023-12-10DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2023.2280993
Tariq Basir, Soumya Datta
{"title":"Bread, freedom or social justice? An empirical investigation into the determinants of the Arab Spring","authors":"Tariq Basir, Soumya Datta","doi":"10.1080/13510347.2023.2280993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2023.2280993","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47953,"journal":{"name":"Democratization","volume":"10 19","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138585022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}