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When Is the Pen Truly Mighty? Regime Type and the Efficacy of Naming and Shaming in Curbing Human Rights Abuses
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Does naming and shaming states affect respect for human rights in those states? This article argues that incentives to change repressive behaviour when facing international condemnation vary across regime types. In democracies and hybrid regimes – which combine democratic and authoritarian elements – opposition parties and relatively free presses paradoxically make rulers less likely to change behaviour when facing international criticism. In contrast, autocracies, which lack these domestic sources of information on abuses, are more sensitive to international shaming. Using data on naming and shaming taken from Western press reports and Amnesty International, the authors demonstrate that naming and shaming is associated with improved human rights outcomes in autocracies, but with either no effect or a worsening of outcomes in democracies and hybrid regimes.
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“Researchers debate the effectiveness of “ naming and shaming ” , and fi nd that incentives to change repressive behavior when facing international condemnation vary across regime type, source of the criticism, the types of rights violations in question and their severity (Esarey and deMeritt 2017; Hafner-Burton 2008; H…”
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- Hendrix, C. S., & Wong, W. H.
- Venue
- British Journal of Political Science
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2012-10-31
- Volume
- 43
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 651-672
- ISSN
- 0007-1234 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-2112
- OpenAlex
- W2168505796
- Cited by
- 305
- References
- 70
- FWCI
- 17.98
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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