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Freedom and Transparency: Democracies, Non-Democracies, and Conventional Arms Transfers
- DOI:
- 10.1080/17419160701545031
pages 343-368
Available online: 14 Dec 2007Abstract
With freedom and transparency data for more than 150 countries, we find that almost 70 percent of countries with a high degree of internal freedom are also transparent when it comes to reporting data on arms transfers. Comparatively, only 21 percent of countries that protect few individual freedoms report such data. Though robust, our findings are little comfort to scholars who theorize a causal link between democracy and transparency, and attribute international peace and security to this relationship. Our findings also question transparency's status as an international norm and validate standard structural realism's thinking about the limits of security cooperation.
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- Available online: 14 Dec 2007
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- a Department of Economics, Lake Forest College,
- b Department of Politics, Lake Forest College,
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