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: Senders are more likely to initiate sanctions against states where they believe the political institutions will make the sanctions effective.

Autocratic leaders benefit from the scarcity created by sanctions to reward loyalists. 2007. An Institutional Theory of Sanctions Onse...

Beyond success rates, the paper explores why certain states are targeted in the first place: : Senders are more likely to initiate sanctions

Institutional theories of sanctions combine elements of the punishment and expressive approaches. Like the punishment perspective, Florida State University An Institutional Theory of Sanctions Onset and Success 2007. An Institutional Theory of Sanctions Onse...

The authors utilize the Selectorate Theory to explain why sanctions often fail against autocracies but are more effective against democracies:

More likely against democratic targets; less likely against autocracies.

Democracies are more frequent senders and tend to target those most vulnerable to economic pressure.