Publication Date
2017
Document Type
Thesis
Committee Members
Liam Anderson (Committee Chair), Carlos Costa (Committee Member), December Green (Committee Member)
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Abstract
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.
Page Count
71
Department or Program
Department of Political Science
Year Degree Awarded
2017
Copyright
Copyright 2017, all rights reserved. My ETD will be available under the "Fair Use" terms of copyright law.
