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Globalization, economic freedom and human rights
Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars-H. R. - 2010
Using the KOF Index of Globalization and two indices of economic freedom, we empirically analyze whether globalization …-2004 period. According to our results, physical integrity rights significantly and robustly increase with globalization and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274933
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Globalization, economic freedom and human rights
Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars-H. R. - 2010
Using the KOF Index of Globalization and two indices of economic freedom, we empirically analyze whether globalization …-2004 period. According to our results, physical integrity rights significantly and robustly increase with globalization and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311692
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Does terror threaten human rights?: evidence from panel data
Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars-H. R. - 2007
The paper presents a political economy model linking terror and governments' respect for human rights. Using panel data for 111 countries over the period 1973-2002, we then empirically analyze whether and to what extent terror affects human rights - measured by three indices covering a wide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264082
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Does terror threaten human rights? Evidence from panel data
Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars-H. R. - 2007
The paper presents a political economy model linking terror and governments' respect for human rights. Using panel data for 111 countries over the period 1973-2002, we then empirically analyze whether and to what extent terror affects human rights - measured by three indices covering a wide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285829
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The market place for ideas: An analysis of knowledge diffusion in academic journals
Heap, Shaun Hargreaves; Parikh, Ashok - 2002
The thought that the academy might function like a ‘market place for ideas’ has been influential in the economics of science and is increasingly so in the philosophy of science/economic methodology literature. This paper contributes to this literature by examining one respect in which the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279305
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Trust in International Organizations: An Empirical Investigation Focusing on the United Nations
Torgler, Benno - 2007
individuals, using micro-data from the World Values Survey, covering 38 countries, to investigate trust in international … globalization. We find that a higher level of (perceived) corruption reduces the trust in the UN in developed countries, but … increases trust in developing and transition countries. A stronger identification with the world as a whole also leads to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312248
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Globalization and health: Impact pathways and recent evidence
Cornia, Giovanni Andrea; Rosignoli, Stefano; Tiberti, Luca - 2008
world if the determinants of health had continued developing over these decades as they did over 1960-80. The results … regard, the paper raises doubts about the way globalization has taken place and the way public policy oriented it. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273481
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Mental health policy in India: Seven sets of questions and some answers
Mirza, Arshad; Singh, Nirvikar - 2017
This paper frames the state of mental health policy in India in terms of seven sets of questions, and seeks to provide at least partial answers to these questions, based on a meta-analysis of existing research. Given the complexity of the subject, this paper is meant to serve more as a framing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012013807
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Do human rights offenders oppose human rights resolutions in the United Nations?
Dreher, Axel; Boockmann, Bernhard - 2007
We investigate voting behavior on human rights in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). Our central question is whether countries with a low human rights record systematically oppose human rights resolutions. An instrumental account of voting would suggest that these countries aim to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277756
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The spread of anti-trafficking policies: Evidence from a new index
Cho, Seo-Young; Dreher, Axel; Neumayer, Eric - 2011
We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278580