Browsing by Author "Escribà-Folch, Abel"

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  • Authoritarian institutions and regime survival: transitions to democracy and subsequent autocracy
    Wright, Joseph; Escribà-Folch, Abel (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
    This article examines how authoritarian parties and legislatures affect regime survival. While authoritarian legislatures increase the stability of dictators, political parties – even when devised to quell internal threats ...
  • Authoritarian regimes and civil–military relations: explaining counterbalancing in autocracies
    Escribà-Folch, Abel; Böhmelt, Tobias; Pilster, Ulrich (SAGE Publications, 2020)
    How do autocracies structure their civil–military relations? We contend that personalist dictators are more strongly associated with counterbalancing than other authoritarian regime types. Personalists are characterized ...
  • Autocrats' modes of exit, rents, and crisis in Africa
    Escribà-Folch, Abel (Academic Journal, 2010)
    Studies analyzing dictators’ duration in power do not generally distinguish the way through which rulers are booted out. In consequence, a destabilizing effect is attributed to some variables without specifying and testing ...
  • Buying peace: amnesty as a tool in ending civil wars
    Daniels, Lesley-Ann (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2016-02-12)
    This thesis examines the use of amnesty as a tool for ending civil wars. The thesis is innovative in its focus on amnesties during civil wars and their impact on conflict termination. I examine the conditions under which ...
  • El destino de los dictadores tras el poder, ¿quién y cómo puede castigarlos?
    Escribà-Folch, Abel (Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, 2008)
    Este artículo analiza desde una perspectiva comparada el destino de los dictadores tras perder o abandonar el poder, es decir, busca explicar bajo qué condiciones es posible castigar a los dictadores salientes o, por el ...
  • Dictadores, instituciones y derechos de propiedad
    Escribà-Folch, Abel (El Colegio de México, 2005)
  • Dictators in exile: explaining the destinations of ex-rulers
    Krcmaric, Daniel; Escribà-Folch, Abel (University of Chicago Press, 2016)
    Exile has been the second most common fate for dictators who lost office since World War II, yet scholars know little about this phenomenon. In this article, we ask a simple yet previously unanswered question: where do ...
  • Economic sanctions and the duration of civil conflicts
    Escribà-Folch, Abel (SAGE Publications, 2010)
    This article studies the impact of economic sanctions on the duration and outcome of intrastate conflicts. Sanctions are argued to foster the convergence of beliefs over parties’ capacity, to reduce the utility of victory ...
  • La economía política de la supervivencia de los dictadores
    Escribà-Folch, Abel (Asociación Española de Ciencia Política y de la Administración (AECPA), 2007)
    Este trabajo explora qué factores explican la supervivencia de los dictadores en el poder centrándose en las estrategias de compra de lealtad. Se muestra así que los dictadores que son capaces de incorporar en las estructuras ...
  • Estructura familiar, estatus ocupacional y movilidad social intrageneracional en España
    Escribà-Folch, Abel (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2006)
    El objetivo básico del presente artículo es desarrollar y completar la literatura existente acerca de los logros educativos y profesionales así como de la movilidad ocupacional en España. El trabajo se estructura así en ...
  • How mechanization shapes coups
    Choulis, Ioannis; Mehrl, Marius; Escribà-Folch, Abel; Böhmelt, Tobias (SAGE Publications, 2023)
    Civil-military relations are characterized by a fundamental dilemma. To lower coup risk, leaders frequently empower the military, which satisfies the armed forces with the status quo and enables them to fight against threats ...
  • Human rights prosecutions and autocratic survival
    Escribà-Folch, Abel; Wright, Joseph (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
    Do human rights prosecutions deter dictatorships from relinquishing power? Advances in the study of human rights show that prosecutions reduce repression in transition countries. However, prosecuting officials for past ...
  • Maten al león: el castigo a los dictadores salientes
    Escribà-Folch, Abel (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2008)
    Este artículo analiza las condiciones bajo las cuales los dictadores son castigados tras perder el poder. Mediante el empleo de una nueva variable que codifica cuál fue el destino de los dictadores derrocados entre 1946 y ...
  • Participação arriscada: manifestações e tumultos em regimes ditatoriais
    Escribà-Folch, Abel (Instituto de Estudios Sociales y Políticos de la Universidad del Estado de Río de Janeiro, 2008)
    Dans cet article, on contrôle de façon empirique, tout en utilisant un large échantillon de pays, les différentes théories sur dissension et protestation au coeur des régimes autoritaires, où ces activités sont souvent ...
  • Pitfalls of professionalism?: military academies and coup risk
    Böhmelt, Tobias; Escribà-Folch, Abel; Pilster, Ulrich (SAGE Publications, 2019)
    Military academies tend to be strongly linked to the professionalization of the armed forces. This explains why many countries in the world have created such institutions. The following article studies a potential negative ...
  • Remittances and democratization
    Escribà-Folch, Abel; Meseguer, Covadonga; Wright, Joseph (Oxford University Press, 2015)
    Do remittances stabilize autocracies? Remittances—money sent by foreign workers to individuals in their home country—differ from other sources of external non-tax revenue, such as foreign aid, because they accrue directly ...
  • The determinants of low-intensity intergroup violence: the case of Northern Ireland
    Balcells, Laia; Daniels, Lesley-Ann; Escribà-Folch, Abel (SAGE Publications, 2016)
    What accounts for low-intensity intergroup violence? This article explores the determinants of low-intensity sectarian violence in Northern Ireland, which has marked the post-1998 peace agreement period. Low-intensity ...
  • The effects of autocratic characteristics on public opinion towards democracy promotion policies: a conjoint analysis
    Escribà-Folch, Abel; Muradova, Lala; Rodon i Casarramona, Antoni (Oxford University Press, 2021)
    Does the level of public support for democracy promotion policies vary with the characteristics of potential autocratic targets? We conduct an experimental study with a conjoint design on a sample of 1,464 US citizens that ...
  • The rush to personalize: power concentration after failed coups in dictatorships
    Timoneda, Joan C.; Escribà-Folch, Abel; Chin, John (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
    How do failed coups influence power personalization in dictatorships? While scholars have studied the mechanisms of personalism in dictatorships in detail, little attention has been paid to the timing and determinants of ...