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Recapturing Regime Type in International Relations: Leaders, Institutions, and Agency Space
Susan D. Hyde, Elizabeth N. Saunders
Journal: International Organization / Volume 74 / Issue 2 / Spring 2020
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 January 2020, pp. 363-395
Print publication: Spring 2020
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A wave of recent research challenges the role of regime type in international relations. One striking takeaway is that democratic and autocratic leaders can often achieve similar levels of domestic constraint, which in many issue areas results in similar international outcomes—leading many to question traditional views of democracies as distinctive in their international relations. In this review essay, we use recent contributions in the field to build what we call a “malleable constraints” framework, in which all governments have an institutionally defined default level of domestic audience constraint that is generally higher in democracies, but leaders maintain some agency within these institutions and can strategically increase their exposure to or insulation from this constraint. Using this framework, we argue that regime type is still a crucial differentiator in international affairs even if, as recent studies suggest, democratic and autocratic leaders can sometimes be similarly constrained by domestic audiences and thus achieve similar international outcomes. This framework helps reconcile many competing claims in recent scholarship, including the puzzle of why autocracies do not strategically increase domestic audience constraint more often. Just because autocracies can engage audience constraints and democracies can escape them does not mean that they can do so with equal ease, frequency, or risk.

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1 - Do Informational Campaigns Promote Electoral Accountability?
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12 - Learning about Cumulative Learning: An Experiment with Policy Practitioners
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3 - Informational Interventions: Theory and Measurement
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I - Information, Accountability, and A New Approach to Cumulative Learning
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2 - The Metaketa Initiative
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7 - Budgets, SMS Texts, and Votes in Uganda
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Index
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5 - When Does Information Increase Electoral Accountability? Lessons from a Field Experiment in Mexico
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6 - Candidate Videos and Vote Choice in Ugandan Parliamentary Elections
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Preface and Acknowledgments
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4 - Under What Conditions Does Performance Information Influence Voting Behavior? Lessons from Benin
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10 - Dilemmas and Challenges of Citizen Information Campaigns: Lessons from a Failed Experiment in India
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Edited by Thad Dunning, University of California, Berkeley, Guy Grossman, University of Pennsylvania, Macartan Humphreys, Columbia University, New York, Susan D. Hyde, University of California, Berkeley, Craig McIntosh, University of California, San Diego, Gareth Nellis, University of California, San Diego
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Recapturing Regime Type in International Relations: Leaders, Institutions, and Agency Space

9 - Horizontal But Not Vertical: Accountability Institutions and Electoral Sanctioning in Northeast Brazil

11 - Meta-Analysis

1 - Do Informational Campaigns Promote Electoral Accountability?

12 - Learning about Cumulative Learning: An Experiment with Policy Practitioners

3 - Informational Interventions: Theory and Measurement

Other Books in the Series

Frontmatter

I - Information, Accountability, and A New Approach to Cumulative Learning

2 - The Metaketa Initiative

Tables

7 - Budgets, SMS Texts, and Votes in Uganda

Index

5 - When Does Information Increase Electoral Accountability? Lessons from a Field Experiment in Mexico

6 - Candidate Videos and Vote Choice in Ugandan Parliamentary Elections

Preface and Acknowledgments

Figures

4 - Under What Conditions Does Performance Information Influence Voting Behavior? Lessons from Benin

10 - Dilemmas and Challenges of Citizen Information Campaigns: Lessons from a Failed Experiment in India

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