2014
DOI: 10.1017/s0022381614000279
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Curse or Cure? Migrant Remittances and Corruption

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“…Research so far has focused on the impact of remittances on electoral vs. non-electoral political behavior (Careja & Emmenegger, 2012;Germano, 2013;Goodman & Hiskey, 2008;Nyblade & O'Mahony, 2014;O'Mahony, 2013;Pérez-Armendáriz & Crow, 2010;Dionne, Inman & Montinola, 2014), as well as on the impact of remittances on the survival of autocrats and the likelihood of democratization (Ahmed, 2012;Escribà-Folch, Meseguer, & Wright, 2015;Moses, 2011;Pfutze, 2012Pfutze, , 2013. Whether remittances constitute yet another resource curse that may feed government corruption is another subject on the research agenda (Tyburski, 2012(Tyburski, , 2014. Surprisingly, the impact that remittances may have on governments' policy choices has been less researched (Ketkar & Ratha, 2010;Leblang, 2010;Singer, 2010).…”
Section: Financial Remittances and The Statementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Research so far has focused on the impact of remittances on electoral vs. non-electoral political behavior (Careja & Emmenegger, 2012;Germano, 2013;Goodman & Hiskey, 2008;Nyblade & O'Mahony, 2014;O'Mahony, 2013;Pérez-Armendáriz & Crow, 2010;Dionne, Inman & Montinola, 2014), as well as on the impact of remittances on the survival of autocrats and the likelihood of democratization (Ahmed, 2012;Escribà-Folch, Meseguer, & Wright, 2015;Moses, 2011;Pfutze, 2012Pfutze, , 2013. Whether remittances constitute yet another resource curse that may feed government corruption is another subject on the research agenda (Tyburski, 2012(Tyburski, , 2014. Surprisingly, the impact that remittances may have on governments' policy choices has been less researched (Ketkar & Ratha, 2010;Leblang, 2010;Singer, 2010).…”
Section: Financial Remittances and The Statementioning
confidence: 99%
“…The institutional impact of international remittances has emerged as an important area of research in the last decade or so; with increasing scholarly effort being devoted to exploring the consequences of such transfers on the quality of governance (Abdih, Chami, Dagher, & Montiel, ), the level of corruption (Tyburski, , ), the composition of public expenditure (Doyle, ), the likelihood of civil conflict (Regan & Frank, ), the persistence (Ahmed, , , ), and democratization (Escriba‐Folch, Meseguer, & Wright, ) of autocratic regimes, and the level of political (Meseguer & Burgess, ) and civic (Nikolova, Roman, & Zimmerman, ) engagement of the population. To the best of our knowledge, however, the present study is the first to undertake a rigorous empirical investigation of the impact of international remittances on a fundamental measure of institutional quality in the form of state protection of human rights.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The literature this issue engages most closely-that on transnational migration's effect on origin-country politics-tends to seek evidence of an association between transnational migration and democratisation or democratic deepening. Family remittances are associated with democratisation and increasing protest in party-based authoritarian regimes (Escribà-Folch, Wright 2015, 2018;Maydom 2017) and strengthen citizen autonomy from clientelist networks (Díaz-Cayeros, Weingast, and Magaloni 2003;Pfütze 2012;Tyburski 2014). Collective remittances, meaning the resources pooled together by groups of migrants, typically to fund public infrastructure and services for the use of non-migrant and migrant families alike (Goldring 2004;Durand, Parrado, and Massey 1996), enhance accountability mechanisms (Burgess 2016) and increase participation and organisational capacity in sending communities (Duquette-Rury 2016Duquette-Rury and Chen 2018;Iskander 2010;Østergaard-Nielsen 2003).…”
Section: Migrant Transnationalism: Democratic Deepening Versus Authormentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The political characteristics of receiving countries certainly condition the degree to which migrants engage their origin-country politics in ways that contribute to strengthening democracy (Careja and Emmenegger 2012). Yet, as a growing number of scholars show, transnational modes of engagement and their political consequences are shaped not only by receiving country experiences, but also by the characteristics of politics in the sending-country (Ahmadov and Sasse 2016;Easton and Montinola 2017;Meseguer, Ley, and Ibarra-Olivo 2017;Rother 2009;Tyburski 2014).…”
Section: Migrant Transnationalism: Democratic Deepening Versus Authormentioning
confidence: 99%