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Confidential Sources: The Public Interest In Keeping Secrets, Brian Rogers, Kevin Donovan, Gail C. Cove, Jamie Cameron, Julian Sher
Confidential Sources: The Public Interest In Keeping Secrets, Brian Rogers, Kevin Donovan, Gail C. Cove, Jamie Cameron, Julian Sher
Jamie Cameron
"Confidential sources: The public interest in keeping secrets What is different about confidential newsgathering sources? Why is it in the public interest to protect these sources, and when is it more important to know who they are? How do shield laws work in the US, and who should set the rules for confidential sources -- the courts or the legislatures?"
Review Of Covering The United States Supreme Court In The Digital Age, Susan David Demaine
Review Of Covering The United States Supreme Court In The Digital Age, Susan David Demaine
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Politics By Number: Indicators As Social Pressure In International Relations, Judith Kelley, Beth A. Simmons
Politics By Number: Indicators As Social Pressure In International Relations, Judith Kelley, Beth A. Simmons
All Faculty Scholarship
The ability to monitor state behavior has become a critical tool of international governance. Systematic monitoring allows for the creation of numerical indicators that can be used to rank, compare and essentially censure states. This article argues that the ability to disseminate such numerical indicators widely and instantly constitutes an exercise of social power, with the potential to change important policy outputs. It explores this argument in the context of the United States’ efforts to combat trafficking in persons and find evidence that monitoring has important effects: countries are more likely to criminalize human trafficking when they are included in …