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Austerity and Aggression: Government Responses to IMF Conditionality

Richard Clark
, 
Anna M Meyerrose
Publication type: Journal Article
Publication date: 2025-01-23
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SJR: 3.810
CiteScore: 10.7
Impact factor: 2.5
ISSN: 00438871, 10863338
Abstract
abstract: The International Monetary Fund (imf) offers countries emergency financial support in exchange for the implementation of stringent policy conditions that often cause political and economic upheaval in target states. How do leaders in borrower countries respond to the backlash from publics and elites that often emerges in these cases? The authors argue that leaders seek to divert attention from economic issues under imf conditionality by employing security-oriented rhetoric and sparking low-cost skirmishes internationally. Such diversionary tactics may help leaders to skirt blame for the short-term economic costs of imf-imposed structural adjustment by driving a rally-around-the-flag effect. The authors pair text analysis of ruling party manifestos with regression analysis of the relationship between imf conditionality and the initiation of interstate disputes and find support for their argument.
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Clark R., Meyerrose A. M. Austerity and Aggression: Government Responses to IMF Conditionality // World Politics. 2025. Vol. 77. No. 1. pp. 111-154.
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Clark R., Meyerrose A. M. Austerity and Aggression: Government Responses to IMF Conditionality // World Politics. 2025. Vol. 77. No. 1. pp. 111-154.
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TY - JOUR
DO - 10.1353/wp.2025.a950024
UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/article/950024
TI - Austerity and Aggression: Government Responses to IMF Conditionality
T2 - World Politics
AU - Clark, Richard
AU - Meyerrose, Anna M
PY - 2025
DA - 2025/01/23
PB - Project MUSE
SP - 111-154
IS - 1
VL - 77
SN - 0043-8871
SN - 1086-3338
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@article{2025_Clark,
author = {Richard Clark and Anna M Meyerrose},
title = {Austerity and Aggression: Government Responses to IMF Conditionality},
journal = {World Politics},
year = {2025},
volume = {77},
publisher = {Project MUSE},
month = {jan},
url = {https://muse.jhu.edu/article/950024},
number = {1},
pages = {111--154},
doi = {10.1353/wp.2025.a950024}
}
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Clark, Richard, and Anna M Meyerrose. “Austerity and Aggression: Government Responses to IMF Conditionality.” World Politics, vol. 77, no. 1, Jan. 2025, pp. 111-154. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/950024.