Democratic Recession and International Agreements: Do backsliding democracies maintain their international commitments?

• In Event: IO Membership and Membership Exit

Brief Overview

Using a cross-national dataset, this paper examines levels of treaty compliance among states that have experienced anti-democratic reforms in order to determine whether backsliding democracies maintain their commitments to international agreements.

Author

• Joshua S Holmes, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign