Does Terror Threaten Human Rights? Evidence from Panel Data

By Axel Dreher, M. Gassebner, Lars-H. R. Siemers. Social Science Research Network, 2007

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The paper presents a political economy model linking terror and governments’ respect for human rights. Using panel data for 111 countries over the period 1973-2002, we then empirically analyze whether and to what extent terror affects human rights – measured by three indices covering a wide variety of human rights aspects. According to our results, terror substantially diminishes governments’ respect for basic human rights such as absence of extrajudicial killings, political imprisonment, and torture. To some extent, civil rights are also restricted as a consequence of terrorism, while we find no effect of terrorism on empowerment rights.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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Globalization, Economic Freedom, and Human Rights (2012, methodology): “…Dataset (CIRI; Cingranelli and Richards 2006) was specifically designed to allow for the testing of theories about causes and consequences of human rights violations and is widely used to do so (e.g., Richards 1999; Abouharb and Cingranelli 2006, 2009; United Nations 2006; and Dreher et al. 2010).”