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Does Electoral Proximity Influence Commitment To International Human Rights Law?, Nolan Ragland May 2023

Does Electoral Proximity Influence Commitment To International Human Rights Law?, Nolan Ragland

Baker Scholar Projects

The core international human rights treaties from the United Nations have been signed and ratified by varying groups of states, and much of previous research has been dominated by a desire to explain ratification of international human rights law (IHRL) through the democratic lock-in effect and states’ economic and political ties to one another. In this paper, I seek to understand when states are ratifying IHRL, testing whether the presence of elections influences commitment to three of the nine core international human rights treaties: the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of …


Baker Center Journal Of Applied Public Policy - Vol. Iv, No. I, Thomas Graham, Robert F. Durant, Robert M. Stein, John M. Scheb Ii, Colin Glennon, Hemant Kumar Sharma, Dorian Stiefel, Kristin Wagers, Mark Harmon, Cristina Reiser, Benjamin Signer Apr 2012

Baker Center Journal Of Applied Public Policy - Vol. Iv, No. I, Thomas Graham, Robert F. Durant, Robert M. Stein, John M. Scheb Ii, Colin Glennon, Hemant Kumar Sharma, Dorian Stiefel, Kristin Wagers, Mark Harmon, Cristina Reiser, Benjamin Signer

Baker Center: Publications and Other Works

This is the 4th volume of the Baker Center Journal on Applied Public Policy. It includes articles on nuclear nonproliferation, American political development, election issues, Tennessee state trial courts, attitudes related to rich and poor people, and two student articles on science, innovation, technology and economic growth and explosive trace detection at airports.