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When Words Are Worse Than Bullets: a Study of Corruption as an Unintended Consequence of Threats of Sanctions

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2017, Master of Arts (MA), Wright State University, International and Comparative Politics.
This research contributes to the debates on the efficacy of economic sanctions as a tool of international diplomacy. It focuses on corruption, one of the potential unintended consequences of sanctions. Using multiple regression on a custom cross-sectional time series dataset of more than a thousand observations, this research finds the correlation between threats of sanctions and level of corruption statistically significant. The model suggests each new round of threats translates into a 1.25% increase in corruption for relatively clean states and a 5% increase for already corrupt states. The resulting policy implications are examined in this thesis.
Liam Anderson, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Carlos Costa, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
December Green, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
71 p.

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  • Balanov, A. (2017). When Words Are Worse Than Bullets: a Study of Corruption as an Unintended Consequence of Threats of Sanctions [Master's thesis, Wright State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1496701535629229

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Balanov, Aleksei. When Words Are Worse Than Bullets: a Study of Corruption as an Unintended Consequence of Threats of Sanctions. 2017. Wright State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1496701535629229.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Balanov, Aleksei. "When Words Are Worse Than Bullets: a Study of Corruption as an Unintended Consequence of Threats of Sanctions." Master's thesis, Wright State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1496701535629229

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)