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Replication data for: Human Rights Practices in a Globalizing World: The Paradox of Empty Promises

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Title Replication data for: Human Rights Practices in a Globalizing World: The Paradox of Empty Promises
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ZUMAPB
 
Creator Emilie M. Hafner-Burton
Kiyo Tsutsui
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description The authors examine the impact of the international human rights regime on governments’ human rights practices. They propose an explanation that highlights a “paradox of empty promises.” Their core arguments are that the global institutionalization of human rights has created an international context in which (1) governments often ratify human rights treaties as a matter of window dressing, radically decoupling policy from practice and at times exacerbating negative human rights practices, but (2) the emergent global legitimacy of human rights exerts independent global civil society effects that improve states’ actual human rights practices. The authors’ statistical analyses on a comprehensive sample of government repression from 1976 to 1999 find support for their argument.
 
Date 2005