The impact of human rights INGO activities on economic sanctions

Murdie, Amanda; Peksen, Dursun

doi:10.1007/s11558-012-9146-9

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“…Although the power of HROs may be "soft," through influencing these third party actors, "hard" political actions could be undertaken to help the repressive population. Past work has found that shaming by HROs can influence the decision of states to place economic sanctions on a repressive regime (Murdie and Peksen 2012) and shaming by UN actors has been linked to changes in foreign aid (Lebovic and Voeten 2009). In short, HROs are considered influential actors for transnational advocacy and serve as agenda setters when it comes to human rights action.…”

Section: The Role Of Human Rights Organizations In Humanitarian Intermentioning

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The Impact of Human Rights INGO Shaming on Humanitarian Interventions

Murdie¹,

Peksen²

2014

The Journal of Politics

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Do transnational human rights organizations (HROs) influence foreign military intervention onset? We argue that the greater international exposure of human suffering through HRO "naming and shaming" activities starts a process of mobilization and opinion change in the international community that ultimately increases the likelihood of humanitarian military intervention. We test the empirical implication of the argument on a sample of all non-Western countries from 1990 to 2005. The results suggest that HRO shaming makes humanitarian intervention more likely even after controlling for several other covariates of intervention decisions. Further, the suggested effect of HROs holds when we use just the general count of all shaming reports by HROs in the popular press or weigh this count by the intensity of the negative shaming message. Finally, HRO activities appear to have a significant impact on the likelihood of military missions by IGOs as well as interventions led by third party states.

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Section: The Role Of Human Rights Organizations In Humanitarian Intermentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of Human Rights INGO Shaming on Humanitarian Interventions

Murdie¹,

Peksen²

2014

The Journal of Politics

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“…SD reports are important because they affect the international business of firms and the policy decisions of governments and international institutions through naming-and-shaming offenders (and those that interact with them) (Blanton, 2000;Blanton and Blanton, 2007;Lebovic and Voeten, 2009;Murdie and Peksen, 2013;Richards et al, 2001). The Human Rights Caucus within the US Congress succeeded in tying foreign aid eligibility to meeting minimal human rights standards.…”

Section: Strategic Interests As a Source Of Systematic Biasmentioning

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the construction of human rights: accounting for systematic bias in common human rights measures

Nieman

Ring

2015

Eur Polit Sci

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Empirical human rights researchers frequently rely on indexes of physical integrity rights created by the Cingranelli-Richards (CIRI) or the Political Terror Scale (PTS) data projects. Any systematic bias contained within a component used to create CIRI and PTS carries over to the final index. We investigate potential bias in these indexes by comparing differences between PTS scores constructed from different sources, the United States State Department (SD) and Amnesty International (AI). In order to establish best practices, we offer two solutions for addressing bias. First, we recommend excluding data before 1980. The data prior to 1980 are truncated because the SD only created reports for current and potential foreign aid recipients. Including these data with the more systematically included post-1980 data is a key source of bias. Our second solution employs a two-stage instrumented variable technique to estimate and then correct for SD bias. We demonstrate how following these best practices can affect results and inferences drawn from quantitative work by replicating a study of interstate conflict and repression.

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“…Human rights organizations have been successful in putting human rights issues on the public, media and political agendas (Dhir, 2007;Soh, 1996) and they have had an impact on human rights performance (Murdie, 2009). Human rights and how they are discussed have been studied in the academic literature, but this paper adds to the existing body of knowledge by its focus on the framing of human rights issues.…”

Section: The Case Of Human Rights Issuesmentioning

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Framing issues in the public debate: the case of human rights

Meriläinen

Vos

2013

Corporate Communications: An International Journal

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to better understand how issues may be framed in public debate. The outcomes of this debate affect organizations. The study is based on the seven types of framing identified by Hallahan (1999) and scrutinizes which of these types is utilized, and how this is done, in the case of human rights issues.Design/Methodology/Approach -For this study a secondary analysis of academic papers on human rights issues was conducted. After a literature search, 40 papers originating from 23 different journals were further analysed. Where the researchers described the framing of human rights issues, the type of framing was identified according to the typology and mode of utilization.Findings -In the case of human rights all seven framing types were found; however, the most common were the framing of attributes in which the economic or cultural context was emphasized, and the framing of situations pointing out power differences between the actors. Research limitations/implications -The study underlines the complexity of framing and the importance of awareness of framing processes. It shows that the framing typology provides valuable insights into the debate on social issues, inspiring further research.Practical implications -This study provides a better understanding of the processes of issue framing, an important part of corporate communication strategies.Social implications -The study adds to actor and audience awareness of framing.Originality/value -Insights from framing theory are applied to the debate on social issues, thereby offering a fresh perspective on research in this field and relevant to corporate social responsibility.

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The impact of human rights INGO activities on economic sanctions

Cited by 74 publications

References 57 publications

The Impact of Human Rights INGO Shaming on Humanitarian Interventions

The Impact of Human Rights INGO Shaming on Humanitarian Interventions

the construction of human rights: accounting for systematic bias in common human rights measures

Framing issues in the public debate: the case of human rights

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