THE STRATEGIC DETERMINANTS OF U.S. HUMAN RIGHTS REPORTING: EVIDENCE FROM THE COLD WAR | Zendy

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THE STRATEGIC DETERMINANTS OF U.S. HUMAN RIGHTS REPORTING: EVIDENCE FROM THE COLD WAR

Author(s) -

Qian Nancy,

Yanagizawa David

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

journal of the european economic association

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 7.792

H-Index - 93

eISSN - 1542-4774

pISSN - 1542-4766

DOI - 10.1162/jeea.2009.7.2-3.446

Subject(s) - amnesty , cold war , human rights , value (mathematics) , panel data , state (computer science) , political science , economics , demographic economics , law , econometrics , politics , statistics , mathematics , computer science , algorithm

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. (JEL: P16)

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