Globalization, Economic Freedom, and Human Rights

By Axel Dreher, M. Gassebner, Lars-H. R. Siemers. Social Science Research Network, 2012

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Using the KOF Index of Globalization and two indices of economic freedom, the authors empirically analyze whether globalization and economic liberalization affect governments’ respect for human rights in a panel of 106 countries over the 1981–2004 period. According to their results, physical integrity rights significantly and robustly increase with globalization and economic freedom, while empowerment rights are not robustly affected. Due to the lack of consensus about the appropriate level of empowerment rights as compared to the outright rejection of any violation of physical integrity rights, the global community is presumably less effective in promoting empowerment rights.

Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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In Political Science and International Relations

1. Håvard Mokleiv Nygård
2. Niklas Potrafke
3. Heinrich W. Ursprung
4. Håvard Hegre
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2. Niklas Potrafke
3. Heinrich W. Ursprung
4. Håvard Hegre
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Citations in the corpus

• Governance and Conflict Relapse (2015, background): “Relatedly, Dreher, Gassebner, and Siemers (2012) show that economic freedom and globalization reduce countries’ human rights violations.”
• Globalization and gender equality in the course of development (2012, background): “Dreher et al. (2012) show that social globalization as measured by the KOF index of social globalization especially increased empowerment rights during 1981-2004.”