Export Diversity and Human Rights
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6285833 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Timothy M Peterson (0000-0003-1159-4898, University of South Carolina, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1740-1767 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Conflict Resolution (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0027 • E-ISSN: 1552-8766 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022002715620278 |
| OpenAlex | W2338612991 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 64 |
In this article, I synthesize a number of recent studies exploring how exports affect human rights, highlighting a common implication that this relationship is conditional on how exports are associated with leaders’ relative costs of repression and accommodation. Beginning with this synthesis, I develop a theory demonstrating how the composition of exports affects human rights via its impact on leader expectations. More diverse exports promote continued growth and prosperity, provide leaders with greater resources, and suggest conditions less conducive to severe dissent, all of which reduce the relative costs of accommodation. Repression is likely to threaten the benefits otherwise associated with greater export diversity; thus its relative cost increases amid greater export diversity. I test this theory using commodity-level data from the United Nations Comtrade database to create a country-year-level measure of export diversity. Statistical analyses spanning 1981 to 2009 support my expectation. My results are robust to sample restrictions and the use of instrumental variables
Accommodation · Diversity (politics · Economic growth · Economics · Human rights · International trade · Political science · Prosperity · Public economics · Sample (material · Corruption and Economic Development · International Development and Aid · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Psychology
Sustaining Development in Mineral Economies
The Variety and Quality of a Nation's Exports
Bringing the State Back In
The curse of natural resources
Interregional and International Trade
The Logic of Political Survival
The Political Terror Scale (PTS)
Greed and grievance in civil war
The Cingranelli and Richards (Ciri) Human Rights Data Project
On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation
State Capacity, Democracy, and the Violation of Personal Integrity Rights
Taking the cue
A political economy of human rights
Economic Growth and Human Development
Human Rights and Trade
The Use of Repression as a Response to Domestic Dissent
Democracy, threats and political repression in developing countries
An economic theory of governability
Was Prometheus Unbound by Chance? Risk, Diversification, and Growth
Booming Sector and De-Industrialisation in a Small Open Economy
Repression of the Human Right to Personal Integrity Revisited
Constrained Concessions
A Theory of Economic Sanctions and Issue Linkage
The Perils of Unearned Income
The Dynamic Relationship Between Protest and Repression
Deterrence or Escalation
The Repression of Dissent
Policy Disputes, Political Survival, and the Onset and Severity of State Repression
Conditions Affecting the Use of Political Repression
Contagious Rebellion and Preemptive Repression
Protest, Deterrence, and Escalation
Divergent Incentives for Dictators
A Hand upon the Throat of the Nation
Sending a Message
The Hidden Hand of Economic Coercion
Trading Human Rights
Political Survival and Endogenous Institutional Change
Racing to the Bottom or Climbing to the Top? Economic Globalization and Collective Labor Rights
Repression and Dissent
What Stops the Torture
Democracy and the Violation of Human Rights
Where Is the Tipping Point? Bilateral Trade and the Diffusion of Human Rights
Beyond Ricardo
Principals, Agents and Human Rights
State Repression and Political Order
Measuring the democracy-repression nexus
Repression of Human Rights to Personal Integrity in the 1980s
Constrained by the bank and the ballot
Armed Conflict 1946-2001
Armed conflicts, 1946-2013
Better or Worse? The Effect of Economic Sanctions on Human Rights
Right or Robust? The Sensitive Nature of Repression to Globalization
Threat and Repression
State Repression and the Tyrannical Peace
Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War
Respect for Human Rights has Improved Over Time
Preventing and Responding to Dissent
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |