Dependence, Political Exclusion, and Government Repression: Some Cross-National Evidence
研究了外国资本对边缘国家的渗透是否导致非精英政治参与被排斥以及政府更频繁镇压反对派，发现依赖对排斥有弱支持，对镇压无直接效应，但排斥会间接增加镇压。
We examine the hypotheses, derived from the dependencylworld-system literature, that the degree of penetration of peripheral countries by foreign capital contributes to the formal exclusion of nonelite political participation and to the greater frequency with which governments actively repress opposition. Analysis of cross-national data from the 1960s and 1970s provides only weak support for the first hypothesis. Further, no direct effects of dependence on repression are found. However, political exclusion has a significant positive effect on our measure of government repression, and this leaves open the possibility that dependence increases the repressive activity of governments indirectly, through its effect on political exclusion. We discuss these results in light of Bollen's (1983) recent findings, and we point out an apparent paradox which future research must address.