{"product_id":"migration-and-democracy-how-remittances-undermine-dictatorships-9780691199375","title":"Migration and Democracy: How Remittances Undermine Dictatorships","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow remittances--money sent by workers back to their home countries--support democratic expansion\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the growing body of work on democracy, little attention has been paid to its links with migration. \u003ci\u003eMigration and Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the effects of worker remittances--money sent by migrants back to their home countries--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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe authors discuss how international migration produces a decentralized flow of income that generally circumvents governments to reach citizens who act as democratizing agents. Documenting why dictatorships fall and how this process has changed in the last three decades, the authors show that remittances increase the likelihood of protest and reduce electoral support for authoritarian incumbents. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCombining global macroanalysis with microdata and case studies of Senegal and Cambodia, \u003ci\u003eMigration and Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how remittances--and the movement of people from authoritarian nations to higher-income countries--foster democracy and its expansion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbel Escribà-Folch\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of political science at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. \u003cb\u003eCovadonga Meseguer\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of international political economy at the ICADE Business School. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eLearning, Policy Making and Market Reforms\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eJoseph Wright\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of political science at Pennsylvania State University. Escribà-Folch and Wright are the coauthors of \u003ci\u003eForeign Pressure and the Politics of Autocratic Survival\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50381000147218,"sku":"9780691199375","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ae0ed927-a9f0-4621-9e4b-30336778e4aa.jpg?v=1728691217","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/migration-and-democracy-how-remittances-undermine-dictatorships-9780691199375","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}