Do International Human Rights Treaties Improve Respect for Human Rights?

By Eric Neumayer. 2005

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

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International Regimes for Human Rights (2012, background): “Treaties can also change domestic politics by sparking mass political mobilization (see also Hafner-Burton & Tsutsui 2005, Neumayer 2005, Smith 2011).”
Treaty Compliance and Violation (2010, methodology): “Taking an agnostic position toward theory, Erik Neumayer ran a similar regression, this time interacting ratification with the continuous polity scale and with the number of international non-governmental organizations per capita (Neumayer 2005).”
Trade-based Diffusion of Labor Rights: A Panel Study, 1986–2002 (2009, methodology): “Figure 2 shows the global trend in both Labor Laws and Labor Practices over the 1985–2002 period, and compares the trends observed among the developing countries included in our sample with those of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Deve- lopment (OECD) member states.”
Globalisation, Women's Economic Rights and Forced Labour (2007, methodology): “In Neumayer and De Soysa (2005), we demonstrate that countries that are more open to trade and are more strongly penetrated by FDI have a lower incidence of child labor.”
Mind the Gap: State Capacity and the Implementation of Human Rights Treaties (2015, background): “Neumayer 2005, 926.”
Emergency and Escape: Explaining Derogations from Human Rights Treaties (2011, background): “…finding: countries that derogate once are far more likely to do so again+ To understand why, we develop a hazard model to predict derogation length+ We discover that 9+ Neumayer 2005+ 10+ Kahler 2000+ 11+ See Hathaway 2002; and Simmons 2009+ 12+ Gross and Ní Aoláin 2006+ autocracies and…”