Barry Maydom
Biographic Data
| ID | 789353 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barry Maydom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barry |
| FAMILY NAME | Maydom |
| SIGNATURE | MAYDOM B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0821-2019 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Emigration, democratic benchmarking and political remittances in Jordan and Tunisia
How does family emigration influence attitudes towards democracy in the Middle East and North Africa? Drawing on 63 interviews with migrants’ families in Jordan and Tunisia, I argue that ‘democratic benchmarking’ plays an important role in influencing the nature and content of political remittances. Families of migrants make comparisons between political systems in their own country and their relatives’ emigration destination, which may reflect e…
Do corruption experiences promote emigration? Observational and experimental evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Classrooms or Crackdowns? How Violence Affects Security Policy Preferences in Mexico
Penal policies have been the primary strategy of Latin American governments to combat crime, but preventative social policies such as youth education programmes may be more effective solutions. Penal and social policies are often treated as a trade-off by governments, who expect citizens—especially victims of violence—to be more supportive of punitive solutions. Using an original online survey experiment conducted in 2021 in Mexico, we challenge …
Emigration, Social Remittances and Fiscal Policy Preferences: Experimental Evidence From Mexico
How does emigration affect tax preferences in migrant-sending countries? Experiencing public services in a high tax-capacity destination may reduce support for tax increases by throwing fiscal failure at home into stark relief (the socialization hypothesis). Alternatively, migrants’ exclusion from certain public services may increase desire to fund these services in migrant origin countries (the exclusion hypothesis). We test these competing hypo…
Remittances and political participation in the Middle East and North Africa
How does the receipt of remittances affect the likelihood of engaging in civic and political activities in the Middle East and North Africa? Research in Latin America and Africa has found two contradictory effects. Remittances can increase recipients' capacity for political participation by providing them with greater economic resources. But remittances may also reduce the incentive for political participation by lessening the importance of the d…
Frontline corruption and emigration in the Western Balkans’
How does frontline corruption influence individuals’ decisions to emigrate? Existing research has found that perceptions of grand political corruption promote emigration, particularly among the highly educated. In this article, we shift the focus to the role of frontline corruption in driving emigration decisions and distinguish between the effects of the payment of bribes to frontline bureaucrats and those of nepotism in public employment. Using…
Migrants’ Remittances, the Fiscal Contract and Tax Attitudes in Africa and Latin America
How does the receipt of remittances shape recipients’ attitudes towards taxation? We argue that remittances are likely to reduce support for the fiscal contract of taxes in exchange for public services because recipients rely less on the national economy and the state for their well-being. Remittance recipients can use the money sent by friends or family overseas to obtain public services in the private market instead of, or in addition to, tax-f…
Migrant Remittances and Violent Responses to Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean
High levels of crime are a key driver of emigration from Latin America and the Caribbean. But can emigration change public opinion about how best to respond to crime? Focusing on the political economy of remittances—the money migrants send to their families and communities—this study argues that emigration can increase support for violent responses to crime. Migrants’ families often spend remittances on investment goods, which makes them more vul…
Remittances, criminal violence and voter turnout
How do financial remittances influence electoral participation in violent democracies? Previous work has focused on the 'substitution effect'; if recipients depend on remittances for welfare rather than the state, they become disengaged from formal political processes and less likely to vote in elections. However, while remittances can be used to substitute for state provision of welfare goods, they cannot fully substitute for public security. In…
State-sponsored trade unions after democratic transitions
New democracies inherit a variety of institutions from prior authoritarian regimes, including political parties, militaries and entrenched oligarchies. While these authoritarian legacies have generally been well-researched, one set of institutions has received relatively little attention: state-backed trade unions that lose official sponsorship after democratizing transitions. In most new democracies and competitive authoritarian regimes, these "…
Remittances, criminal violence and voter turnout
How do financial remittances influence electoral participation in violent democracies? Previous work has focused on the 'substitution effect'; if recipients depend on remittances for welfare rather than the state, they become disengaged from formal political processes and less likely to vote in elections. However, while remittances can be used to substitute for state provision of welfare goods, they cannot fully substitute for public security. In…
Migrants’ Remittances, the Fiscal Contract and Tax Attitudes in Africa and Latin America
How does the receipt of remittances shape recipients’ attitudes towards taxation? We argue that remittances are likely to reduce support for the fiscal contract of taxes in exchange for public services because recipients rely less on the national economy and the state for their well-being. Remittance recipients can use the money sent by friends or family overseas to obtain public services in the private market instead of, or in addition to, tax-f…
Remittances and political participation in the Middle East and North Africa
How does the receipt of remittances affect the likelihood of engaging in civic and political activities in the Middle East and North Africa? Research in Latin America and Africa has found two contradictory effects. Remittances can increase recipients' capacity for political participation by providing them with greater economic resources. But remittances may also reduce the incentive for political participation by lessening the importance of the d…
Emigration, Social Remittances and Fiscal Policy Preferences: Experimental Evidence From Mexico
How does emigration affect tax preferences in migrant-sending countries? Experiencing public services in a high tax-capacity destination may reduce support for tax increases by throwing fiscal failure at home into stark relief (the socialization hypothesis). Alternatively, migrants’ exclusion from certain public services may increase desire to fund these services in migrant origin countries (the exclusion hypothesis). We test these competing hypo…
Migrant Remittances and Violent Responses to Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean
High levels of crime are a key driver of emigration from Latin America and the Caribbean. But can emigration change public opinion about how best to respond to crime? Focusing on the political economy of remittances—the money migrants send to their families and communities—this study argues that emigration can increase support for violent responses to crime. Migrants’ families often spend remittances on investment goods, which makes them more vul…
State-sponsored trade unions after democratic transitions
New democracies inherit a variety of institutions from prior authoritarian regimes, including political parties, militaries and entrenched oligarchies. While these authoritarian legacies have generally been well-researched, one set of institutions has received relatively little attention: state-backed trade unions that lose official sponsorship after democratizing transitions. In most new democracies and competitive authoritarian regimes, these "…
Migrant Remittances and Violent Responses to Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean
High levels of crime are a key driver of emigration from Latin America and the Caribbean. But can emigration change public opinion about how best to respond to crime? Focusing on the political economy of remittances—the money migrants send to their families and communities—this study argues that emigration can increase support for violent responses to crime. Migrants’ families often spend remittances on investment goods, which makes them more vul…
Remittances, criminal violence and voter turnout
How do financial remittances influence electoral participation in violent democracies? Previous work has focused on the 'substitution effect'; if recipients depend on remittances for welfare rather than the state, they become disengaged from formal political processes and less likely to vote in elections. However, while remittances can be used to substitute for state provision of welfare goods, they cannot fully substitute for public security. In…
Frontline corruption and emigration in the Western Balkans’
How does frontline corruption influence individuals’ decisions to emigrate? Existing research has found that perceptions of grand political corruption promote emigration, particularly among the highly educated. In this article, we shift the focus to the role of frontline corruption in driving emigration decisions and distinguish between the effects of the payment of bribes to frontline bureaucrats and those of nepotism in public employment. Using…
Migrants’ Remittances, the Fiscal Contract and Tax Attitudes in Africa and Latin America
How does the receipt of remittances shape recipients’ attitudes towards taxation? We argue that remittances are likely to reduce support for the fiscal contract of taxes in exchange for public services because recipients rely less on the national economy and the state for their well-being. Remittance recipients can use the money sent by friends or family overseas to obtain public services in the private market instead of, or in addition to, tax-f…
Classrooms or Crackdowns? How Violence Affects Security Policy Preferences in Mexico
Penal policies have been the primary strategy of Latin American governments to combat crime, but preventative social policies such as youth education programmes may be more effective solutions. Penal and social policies are often treated as a trade-off by governments, who expect citizens—especially victims of violence—to be more supportive of punitive solutions. Using an original online survey experiment conducted in 2021 in Mexico, we challenge …
Emigration, Social Remittances and Fiscal Policy Preferences: Experimental Evidence From Mexico
How does emigration affect tax preferences in migrant-sending countries? Experiencing public services in a high tax-capacity destination may reduce support for tax increases by throwing fiscal failure at home into stark relief (the socialization hypothesis). Alternatively, migrants’ exclusion from certain public services may increase desire to fund these services in migrant origin countries (the exclusion hypothesis). We test these competing hypo…
Remittances and political participation in the Middle East and North Africa
How does the receipt of remittances affect the likelihood of engaging in civic and political activities in the Middle East and North Africa? Research in Latin America and Africa has found two contradictory effects. Remittances can increase recipients' capacity for political participation by providing them with greater economic resources. But remittances may also reduce the incentive for political participation by lessening the importance of the d…
Do corruption experiences promote emigration? Observational and experimental evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Emigration, democratic benchmarking and political remittances in Jordan and Tunisia
How does family emigration influence attitudes towards democracy in the Middle East and North Africa? Drawing on 63 interviews with migrants’ families in Jordan and Tunisia, I argue that ‘democratic benchmarking’ plays an important role in influencing the nature and content of political remittances. Families of migrants make comparisons between political systems in their own country and their relatives’ emigration destination, which may reflect e…
Economics (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Emigration (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (3 works) · Remittance (3 works)