New evidence that naming and shaming influences state human rights practices

IF 1 2区 社会学 Q3 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Journal of Human Rights Pub Date : 2022-11-29 DOI:10.1080/14754835.2022.2122785
Yuanxia Zhou, G. Kiyani, C. Crabtree
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Abstract To what extent does naming and shaming influence state respect for human rights? Although many countries and international human rights organizations strategically name and shame states with the hope of deterring human rights abuses, prior empirical work on these strategies has disagreed about their effectiveness. In this article, we reinvestigate this theoretically important question. We take a new approach to examining how naming and shaming influences state human rights practices. First, we apply automatic text analysis to a corpus of human rights reports and develop two new cross-national human rights naming and shaming measures. One measure focuses on Amnesty International’s (AI’s) naming and shaming efforts, and the other focuses on the US government. Second, we assess the construct validity of these measures, finding evidence that they capture the relevant latent dimension. Third, we examine the extent to which these measures are correlated with human rights practices. Our results show that whereas AI’s naming and shaming activities do not seem to influence regime practices, the US State Department’s are associated with improved rights performance. Our measures and results contribute to the growing literature on human rights, international organizations, and foreign policy.
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新的证据表明,点名和羞辱会影响国家的人权做法
点名羞辱在多大程度上影响了国家对人权的尊重?尽管许多国家和国际人权组织在战略上点名羞辱一些国家,希望以此阻止侵犯人权行为,但之前关于这些战略的实证工作对其有效性存在分歧。本文对这一重要的理论问题进行了重新探讨。我们采取了一种新的方法来研究命名和羞辱如何影响国家人权实践。首先,我们将自动文本分析应用于人权报告语料库,并制定了两项新的跨国人权点名和羞辱措施。一项措施侧重于大赦国际(Amnesty International)的点名和羞辱努力,另一项措施侧重于美国政府。其次,我们评估了这些措施的结构效度,发现证据表明它们捕获了相关的潜在维度。第三,我们考察了这些措施与人权实践的关联程度。我们的研究结果表明,尽管人工智能的点名和羞辱活动似乎不会影响政权的做法,但美国国务院的点名和羞辱活动与人权表现的改善有关。我们的措施和结果有助于人权、国际组织和外交政策方面的文献不断增加。
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