This document discusses different influence mechanisms for creating political change, including social learning, external incentives, and capacity building. It categorizes the mechanisms based on the level of disturbance to domestic power balances and whether the regime is included in an interactive or unilateral mode. Social learning and persuasion work best when disturbance is low and the regime is interactively included, while sanctions and declarations work better when disturbance is high and the approach is unilateral.
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105. Influence mechanisms
Social Learning External Incentives
Political dialogue and negotiations Influence through rewards
Disturbance of domestic
low
(i.e. the application of posi-
balance of power
Influence through persuation tive conditionality can be
& social learning linked to foreign assistance)
Influence through declara-
Influence through bargaining tions (naming & shaming)
(including threats ans prom-
high
ises) Influence through sactions
(i.e. the application of nega-
tive conditionality)
Inclusion of Regime
interactive mode unilateral mode
107. Influence mechanism
Capacity Building
Primary targets: Primary targets: Primary targets:
Disturbance of domestic
low
State institutions State institutions State institutions
balance of power
Gongos Gongos Gongos
Non political NGOs Non political NGOs Non political NGOs
Political active NGOs Political active NGOs Political active NGOs
Media Media Media
Political active NGOs Political active NGOs Political active NGOs
Political parties Political parties Political parties
high
Exclusively opposition Exclusively opposition Exclusively opposition
parties parties parties
With approval Without approval Against dispproval
Inclusion of regime in choosing targets
interactive mode unilateral mode