Abstract
The Socialist International (SI) today represents undoubtedly the strongest international political movement with 19 member parties in government and a total of 22 parties either sharing government responsibility. In order to isolate and analyse the different components of the SI and its member states' approaches to democratisation, this chapter utilises Magen and McFaul's “logics of influence”. Material incentives entail both threats of punitive measures and promises of positive rewards. The aim is to alter the cost-benefit calculations of domestic leaders, in order to encourage democratic reform in the target state. The SI is a worldwide organisation of social democratic, socialist and labour parties. While the European social democratic parties all embraced strategies that utilised the manipulation of material incentives, they did not always agree on which strategies or how to employ them. One of the conflicts centred on whether or not they should make financial aid to Portugal contingent on a certain political development.
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