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| Type | Journal Article |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | The strategic determinants of U.S. human rights reporting: evidence from the Cold War |
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| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published in final form |
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| Journal Title | Journal of the European Economic Association |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc. |
| Geographical Reach | international |
| ISSN | 1542-4766 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Number | 2-3 |
| Page Range | 446 - 457 |
| Date | 2009 |
| Abstract Text | This paper uses a country-level panel data set to test the hypothesis that the United States biases its human rights reports of countries based on the latters' strategic value. We use the difference between the U.S. State Department's and Amnesty International's reports as a measure of U.S. “bias.” For plausibly exogenous variation in strategic value to the U.S., we compare this bias between U.S. Cold War (CW) allies to non-CW allies, before and after the CW ended. The results show that allying with the U.S. during the CW significantly improved reports on a country's human rights situation from the U.S. State Department relative to Amnesty International. |
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| Digital Object Identifier | 10.1162/JEEA.2009.7.2-3.446 |
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