A social science of human rights
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4861894 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emilie M Hafner-Burton (School of International Relations and Pacific Studies & Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego), Emilie M Hafner‐burton (0000-0002-7315-4110, University of California San Diego, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 273-286 |
| Publication date | 2014-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Peace Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3433 • E-ISSN: 1460-3578 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022343313516822 |
| OpenAlex | W2099118753 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 38 |
| References cited | 115 |
Why do governments abuse human rights, and what can be done to deter and reverse abusive practices? This article examines the emerging social science on these two questions. Over the last few decades, scholars have made considerable progress in answering the first one. Abuse stems, centrally, from conflict and institutions. Answers to the second question are more elusive because data are scarce and the relationships between cause and effect are hard to pin down. Lively debates concern the effectiveness of tools such as military intervention, economic policy, international law, and information strategies for protecting human rights. The evidence suggests that despite the explosion of international legal instruments, this strategy has had impact only in special circumstances. Powerful states play central roles in protecting human rights through sanctions, impartial military intervention, and other tools - often applied unilaterally, which suggests that there is an ongoing tension between the legitimacy of broad multilateral legal institutions and narrower strategies that actually work. The best approaches to managing human rights depend on the political organization of the abuser. Where strong centralized organizations are the problem, the best strategies alter the incentives of leaders at the top; where abuse arises from disarray, such as during civil war or fragile democratic transition, the key tasks include reducing agency slack and making organizations stronger and more accountable
Agency (philosophy) · Economics · Human rights · Incentive · Intervention (counseling) · Law and economics · Legitimacy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sanctions · Sociology · Economic Sanctions and International Relations · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Psychology
National and International Civilian Protection Strategies in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
IMF Lending Programs and Repression in Autocracies
Exploring institutional competence for effective anti-trafficking policy compliance
Layers of Political Repression
Measuring the Impact of Human Rights
Does US Foreign Aid Undermine Human Rights? The “Thaksinification” of the War on Terror Discourses and the Human Rights Crisis in Thailand, 2001 to 2006
Respect for Physical-Integrity Rights in the Twenty-First Century
NGOs invite attention
Keeping out of harm’s way? Constitutional due process and state repression
Trade agreements and labour standards clauses
Mediating among Mediators
United States foreign aid in Egypt
A time to act and a time for restraint
US aid and substitution of human rights violations
Refugees, Economic Capacity, and Host State Repression
The Structure and Evolution of the International Human Rights Network
The performance and persistence of transitional justice and its ways of knowing atrocity
Revisionist Conflict and State Repression
Conditional coercion versus rights diagnostics
Threats to human rights
Linkage leverage democratization and liberalization
The social science of human rights
Precision-guided or blunt? The effects of US economic sanctions on human rights
Global civil society and the test of Kyoto
When Do Voters Support the European Union’s Involvement in Gay Rights
Exploring the Universe of UN Human Rights Agreements
The Political Costs of Abusing Human Rights
Migration, Labor, and the International Political Economy
The Changing Standard of Accountability and the Positive Relationship between Human Rights Treaty Ratification and Compliance
Humanitarian Success Post Bellum
The Responsibility to Protect in a world of already existing intervention
Repudiation and Repression
The deadly protection trap
Contesting narratives of repression
Years of Peace Research
Potholes and Power
The Contradictory Impact of Transnational Aids Institutions on State Repression in China, 1989-2013
Filling Empty Promises? Foreign Aid and Human Rights Decoupling, 1981-2011
Economic sanctions reconsidered
Hitler's willing executioners
The Marketing of Rebellion
Does Peacekeeping Work?
Life-Integrity Violations and Democracy in the World, 1987
The White Man's Burden
All Countries Not Created Equal to Be News
Do Human Rights Treaties Make a Difference?
Who Gives Foreign Aid to Whom and Why?
The justice cascade
From Voting to Violence
Keepers of the Flame
Activists beyond Borders
Coercive Cooperation
The Helsinki Effect
Making Human Rights a Reality
Human Rights and Structural Adjustment
Mobilizing for Human Rights
When Truth Commissions Improve Human Rights
The Impact of International Tribunals and Domestic Trials on Peace and Human Rights After Civil War
Threatening Sanctions When Engagement Would Be More Effective
Measuring the Effects of Human Rights Treaties
Trade Openness, Foreign Direct Investment and Child Labor
Human Rights and Trade
Does Trade Openness Promote Security Rights in Developing Countries? Examining the Liberal Perspective
Why Economic Sanctions Do Not Work
Trials and Errors
Democracy, threats and political repression in developing countries
The Role of Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Assistance Policy
Do Human Rights Matter in Bilateral Aid Allocation? A Quantitative Analysis of 21 Donor Countries
The Price of Peace
Shaping the Northern Media's Human Rights Coverage, 1986—2000
National Interests and US Foreign Aid
Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Assistance from Nixon to Carter
Human Rights Practices and the Distribution of U.S. Foreign Aid to Latin American Countries
Activists beyond borders
When Do (Imposed) Economic Sanctions Work
"Constitutional Promises" and Repressive Reality
What Attracts Foreign Investors? An Examination of Human Rights and Foreign Direct Investment
Does Foreign Military Intervention Help Human Rights
Repression, Dissent, and the Onset of Civil War
Political Repression and Public Perceptions of Human Rights
Managing Threat, Cost, and Incentive to Kill
Conditions Affecting the Use of Political Repression
Do International Human Rights Treaties Improve Respect for Human Rights
Third-party Interventions and the Duration of Intrastate Conflicts
Thinking Inside the Box
Global Economic Patterns and Personal Integrity Rights After the Cold War
Money with a Mean Streak? Foreign Economic Penetration and Government Respect for Human Rights in Developing Countries
The Human Rights Effects of World Bank Structural Adjustment, 1981-2000
Ratification Patterns and the International Criminal Court1
United States Human Rights Policy and Foreign Assistance
Rewarding Human Rights? Selective Aid Sanctions against Repressive States
Does Foreign Aid Promote Democracy
The Latin Bias
Domestic Judicial Institutions and Human Rights Treaty Violation
Criminalizing Consequences of Sanctions
Trading Human Rights
Conditioning the Effects of Aid
International Law and Public Attitudes Toward Torture
Credible Commitments and the International Criminal Court
In the Eye of the Beholder
International Regimes for Human Rights
Democracy and the Violation of Human Rights
When Do Governments Resort to Election Violence
Asking the right question
State Repression and Political Order
US Aid Allocation
Foreign military intervention and women's rights
Transnational mergers and acquisitions
Human Rights and Multinationals
Repression of Human Rights to Personal Integrity in the 1980s
Examining the Goals of US Foreign Assistance in the Post-cold War Period, 1991-96
Rebel capability and strategic violence against civilians
The Contracting Roots of Human Rights
The Impact of Human Rights Trials in Latin America
Security Forces and Sexual Violence
The institutional expansion of human rights, 1863-2003
Expanding the scope of post-conflict justice
Justice Lost! The Failure of International Human Rights Law To Matter Where Needed Most
European Aid
Citizens' Perceptions of Human Rights Practices
Dueling incentives
Diplomatic Interventions and Civil War
Structural determinants of human rights prosecutions after democratic transition
Human Rights and the Allocation of US Military Assistance
Respect for Human Rights after the End of the Cold War
A Fate Worse Than Debt? International Financial Institutions and Human Rights, 1981-2003
Armed intervention and civilian victimization in intrastate conflicts
New Dilemmas in Transitional Justice
One-Sided Violence Against Civilians in War
Good Things to Those Who Wait? National Elections and Government Respect for Human Rights
Transitional justice in the world, 1970-2007
Re-Ordering Justice
Better or Worse? The Effect of Economic Sanctions on Human Rights
A Global Analysis of the Effect of Political Regime Changes on Life Integrity Violations, 1977-93
Human Rights Rogues in Interstate Disputes, 1980-2001
Human Rights Institutions
State Capacity, State Failure, and Human Rights
Instruments of Security or Tools of Repression? Arms Imports and Human Rights Conditions in Developing Countries
| Unique citing works | 38 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,17 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 38 |