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

: The authors suggest that majoritarian democratic politics may "overproduce" sanctions as a policy tool due to domestic demands from various interest groups within their own large winning coalitions. Summary of Hypotheses Institutional Effect Sanction Success 2007. An Institutional Theory of Sanctions Onse...

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 : Senders are more likely to initiate sanctions

: For sanctions to work, they must create enough political pressure on the leader's "winning coalition"—the essential group of supporters needed to stay in power. Like the punishment perspective, Florida State University An

Beyond success rates, the paper explores why certain states are targeted in the first place:

Autocratic leaders benefit from the scarcity created by sanctions to reward loyalists.

More likely against democratic targets; less likely against autocracies.