TY - JOUR
T1 - The strategic determinants of U.S. human rights reporting
T2 - Evidence from the Cold War
AU - Qian, Nancy
AU - Yanagizawa, David
PY - 2009/3
Y1 - 2009/3
N2 - 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
AB - 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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U2 - 10.1162/JEEA.2009.7.2-3.446
DO - 10.1162/JEEA.2009.7.2-3.446
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:70349448632
SN - 1542-4766
VL - 7
SP - 446
EP - 457
JO - Journal of the European Economic Association
JF - Journal of the European Economic Association
IS - 2-3
ER -