Migration and democracy : how remittances undermine dictatorship / Abel Escribà-Folch, Covadonga Meseguer, Joseph Wright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Escribà-Folch, Abel, author.

Meseguer Yebra, Covadonga, author.

Wright, Joseph (Joseph George), 1976- author.

Series:

Princeton scholarship online.

Princeton scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration--Political aspects.

Emigration and immigration.

Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.

Emigrant remittances--Political aspects.

Emigrant remittances.

Democratization--Economic aspects.

Democratization.

Dictatorship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2022]

Summary:

Remittances, money sent by workers back to their home countries, support democratic expansion. Migration and Democracy focuses on the effects of worker remittances and how these resources shape political action in the Global South. Remittances are not only the largest source of foreign income in most autocratic countries, but also, in contrast to foreign aid or international investment, flow directly to citizens. As a result, they provide resources that make political opposition possible, and they decrease government dependency, undermining the patronage strategies underpinning authoritarianism. The authors discuss how international migration produces a decentralised flow of income that generally circumvents governments to reach citizens who act as democratizing agents.

Contents:

5.1.1. Ruling Party Vote Share

5.1.2. The Turnout Contest

5.2. How Remittances Cut Clientelistic Ties to the Ruling Party

5.2.1. Testing the Micro-Logic of Remittances and Turnout

5.2.2. Remittances, Poverty, and Turnout

5.2.3. Remittances, Political Preferences, and Turnout in Swing Districts

5.2.4. An AlternativeMeasure of Government Support

5.3. Conclusion

6. Remittances and Democratization

6.1. Closing the Resource Gap

6.2. Remittances, Voting, and Protests in Senegal and Cambodia

6.2.1. Senegal

6.2.2. Cambodia

6.2.3. Conclusion

4.1. Remitted Income and the Global Rise in Protest

4.1.1. Anti-Government Protest

4.1.2. Pro-Government Mobilization

4.2. How Remittances Boost Protests

4.2.1. Capturing Political Preferences: Opposition and Regime Strongholds

4.2.2. Testing the Micro-Logic Linking Remittances to Protest

4.2.3. Remittances, Poverty, and Protest

4.3. Conclusion

4.4. Appendix: Measuring Pro-Government Areas

4.4.1. Vote Choice and Non-Response

4.4.2. External Validity

5. Remittances Demobilize Supporters

5.1. Remittances and the Electoral Fate of Ruling Parties

3.1.1. The Revenue Effect

3.1.2. The Substitution Effect

3.1.3. Taxation and the Demand for Democracy

3.2. Do Remittances Increase Government Revenue in Dictatorships?

3.3. Remittances and Government Spending

3.3.1. Government Health Spending and Military Spending

3.3.2. Do Remittances Boost Petrol Subsidies?

3.4. Remittances and Repression

3.4.1. Do Remittances Enhance Violent Repression in Dictatorships?

3.4.2. Do Remittances Harm Civil Liberties and Political Rights?

3.5. Conclusion

4. Remittances Fund Opponents

2.2.2. Remittances as a Global Force for Bottom-Up Democratization

2.3. Remittances and Democratization: What Comes after Exit?

2.3.1. Remittances Sustain Dictatorship: Repression, Patronage, and Grievance

2.3.2. How Exit Funds Voice and Weakens Loyalty

2.4. Refining the Theoretical Mechanisms: Political Preferences and Poverty

2.4.1. Protest

2.4.2. Voting

2.4.3. Political Context and Political Behavior

2.5. Conclusion

3. Remittances, Revenue, and Government Spending in Dictatorships

3.1. Remittances, State Resources, and Authoritarian Stability

Cover

Contents

List of Illustrations and Tables

Preface

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

1.1. Globalization, Migration, and Political Change

1.1.1. Existing Theories: Migration and Democracy

1.1.2. Foreign Income Inflows and Autocratic Rule

1.1.3. Remittances in the Global South

1.2. Previewing the Argument

1.3. Plan of the Book

2. Migration and Repertoires of Contention: How Remittances Undermine Dictatorship

2.1. Citizens as Agents of Change

2.2. Global Forces and Democratization

2.2.1. How International Forces Shape Authoritarian Survival

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 13, 2022).

ISBN:

9780691223056

069122305X

OCLC:

1286427329