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Dangerous Changes? The Effect of Political Regime Changes on Life Integrity Violations, 1977-1993

This study develops a model of different types of political regime changes and their effect on life integrity violations. The data covers 147 countries from 1977-1993. Basic bivariate analyses and multivariate pooled cross-sectional time series analyses employing Ordinary Least Squares regression with panel-corrected standard errors are used. The results show that political regime change in general has no effect on state-sponsored violence. Looking at different types of regime changes, the regr… more

Date: August 1998

Creator: Zanger, Sabine C. (Sabine Carmen)

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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The Counterinsurgency Dilemma: The Causes and Consequences of State Repression of Human Rights in Civil Wars

In this project a theory of adaptive differential insurgency growth by the mechanism of repression driven contagion is put forth to explain variation in the membership and spatial expansion of insurgencies from 1981 to 1999. As an alternative to the dominant structural approaches in the civil war literature, Part 1 of the study proposes an interactive model of insurgency growth based on Most and Starr's opportunity and willingness framework. The findings suggest that state capacity, via its imp… more

Date: May 2010

Creator: Quinn, Jason Michael

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Human Rights and the Strategic Use of US Foreign Food Aid

How does respect for human rights affect the disbursement of food aid by US foreign policymakers? Scholars analyzing foreign aid generally look at only total economic aid, military aid or a combination of both. However, for a more nuanced understanding of human rights as a determinant of foreign aid, the discrete foreign aid programs must be examined. By disentangling component-programs from total aid, this analysis demonstrates how human rights influence policymakers by allowing them to distri… more

Date: December 2007

Creator: Fariss, Christopher J.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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The Impact of Gender on Domestic Human Rights Abuse

This study develops three models of human rights determinants with the inclusion an untested variable, women in parliaments. The research is conducted on pooled cross-sectional time-series data from 130 countries between 1978 and 1996. For the purpose of analysis the Prais-Winsten Regression method with Panel Corrected Standard Errors was used. The women in power variable is hypothesized to be significantly, positively correlated with a state's propensity toward respect for human rights and is … more

Date: May 2004

Creator: Godwin, Donna D.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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[Human rights note]

A series of handwritten notes in blue and black ink about human rights and voting, among other miscellaneous items.

Date: [1991..1998]

Item Type: Text

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

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Naming and Shaming Non-State Organizations, Coercive State Capacity, and Its Effects on Human Rights Violations

Scholars generally assume that states are shamed for their own behavior, but they can also be shamed for the lack of investigation for violence perpetrated by domestic non-state actors. I engage this previously-unstudied phenomenon and develop a theory to explain how states will respond to being shamed for failing to control domestic violence. I examine two types of outcomes: the governments' change in behavior, and the accountability efforts against state agents that have abused human rights. … more

Date: August 2018

Creator: Martinez, Melissa

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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The value of human rights on the open market: Liberal economic policies and the achievement of personal integrity rights.

At the end of World War II, the United States emerged as a world leader, putting into place international institutions based on its own liberal economic philosophy. Since then, the world has witnessed an increasing interconnectedness among states, with economic relationships continually blurring the distinction between domestic and international, as well as between state and societal forces. Much of the world associates this increased interconnectedness with human suffering around the globe. Th… more

Date: December 2003

Creator: Harrelson-Stephens, Julie

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Weak states, human rights violations, and the outbreak of civil war.

In recent years, explanations for the occurrence of civil war have mainly emphasized state weakness as providing an opportunity for greed-based rebellions. Yet, this explanation leaves many questions open, as it cannot distinguish between weak states that do and those that do not experience civil war. In this paper, I argue that abuses of personal integrity rights, committed or sponsored by the government, provide this missing link. The theory is illustrated and formalized in a game-theoretic m… more

Date: May 2005

Creator: Rost, Nicolas

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Communication Flow, Information Exchange and Their Impact on Human Rights Violations

Although international human rights declarations exist, violations of human rights are still sad but also common facts around the world. But for repressive regimes, it becomes more and more difficult to hide committed human rights violations, since society entered the "Information Revolution." This study argues that the volume of international information exchanged influences a country's human rights record. A pooled cross sectional time series regression model with a lagged endogenous variable… more

Date: May 1996

Creator: Bonn, Georg

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries