Dependence Networks and the Diffusion of Domestic Political Institutions
Dependence Networks and the Diffusion of Domestic Political Institutions
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依赖网络与国内政治制度的扩散
DOI：
10.1177/0022002715596772
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Darren Hawkins
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作者：
J. Goodliffe;Darren Hawkins
国家如何以及在多大程度上影响其他国家的民主和专制水平？我们认为，国家在国际上存在相互依赖的网络，这些网络提供了一个国家的国内机构的影响力的途径。对于任何一个国家来说，依赖网络都是一组伙伴国家，它经常与这些国家进行有价值的商品交换，而这些交换的破坏代价很高。我们发现，一个指数的三个这样的网络贸易，安全和共享的国际组织成员国显着影响国内政治机构在一个特定的国家。从长远来看，这些变化是巨大的，与区域和全球民主水平的规模相似。国家能力在我们的网络措施中占有重要地位，因此强调了权力在国内政治制度传播中的作用。我们还发现，网络影响的变化是双向的：国家可以变得更加专制，也可以变得更加民主。
How and to what extent do states influence the level of democracy and autocracy in other states? We argue that states exist internationally in dependence networks with each other and that those networks provide pathways for influence on a state’s domestic institutions. For any given state, a dependence network is a set of partner states with whom it regularly engages in exchanges of valued goods, where those exchanges would be costly to break. We find that an index of three such networks–trade, security and shared international organization membership–significantly influences the domestic political institutions in a given state. These changes are substantively large in the long run, similar in size to regional and global levels of democracy. State capabilities figure heavily in our network measures, thus emphasizing the role of power in the diffusion of domestic political institutions. We also find that network-influenced change works both ways: states can become more autocratic or more democratic.