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Indirect Compellence and Institutional Change: U.S. Extraterritorial Law Enforcement and the Erosion of Swiss Banking Secrecy

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2020
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Überbacher, F., & Scherer, A. G. (2020). Indirect Compellence and Institutional Change: U.S. Extraterritorial Law Enforcement and the Erosion of Swiss Banking Secrecy. Administrative Science Quarterly, 65(3), 565–605. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001839219855033

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Abstract

Based on an in-depth, qualitative case study about a conflict between governmental authorities from the United States and Switzerland over the regulation of Swiss banks, we introduce indirect compellence as a novel triadic and indirect mechanism through which coercion leads to institutional change. Hostage-taking being a prototypical example, indirect compellence is typified by a coercive actor who takes a third party hostage to gain influence over a targeted actor. In our case, it meant that U.S. authorities (coercers) compelled Swis

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65

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3

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565

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605

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Discipline-based scholarship (basic research)

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English

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2020-09-01

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2019-09-12

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Cornell University, Johnson Graduate School of Management

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0001-8392

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merlin-id:18161

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Überbacher, F., & Scherer, A. G. (2020). Indirect Compellence and Institutional Change: U.S. Extraterritorial Law Enforcement and the Erosion of Swiss Banking Secrecy. Administrative Science Quarterly, 65(3), 565–605. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001839219855033

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