How do dyadic relations affect a state's human rights naming and shaming strategy? We argue that institutional and ideational factors influence democratic states' understanding of human rights values while in non-democratic states, political factors dominate states' calculus. Based on ingroup-outgroup perception, pairs of states interact differently in international human rights politics. Our quantitative analyses demonstrate that states with similar regime types are more lenient in providing recommendations at the United Nations Universal Periodic Review (henceforth, UPR) and are also more likely to accept one another's recommendations. Our paper illustrates the dynamic nature of naming and shaming. This paper contributes to the literature by demonstrating regime type as an underlying factor influencing dyadic interactions on human rights issues. Our findings have implications for policymakers who wish to improve human rights in other states.
Regular Issue
Volume #28, Number #1
Published in June, 2024
This study attempts to explain the correlation between the level of corruption control and vaccination performance across countries, controlling for other important variables related to vaccination. The assumption is that countries with better corruption control are more likely to have better vaccination performance. Secondly, some past studies find that African countries generally performed poorly in vaccination, and form a spatial clustering of poor vaccination performance. It will be a spatial heterogeneous situation. Therefore, this study uses cross-country data to examine the relationship between the level of e-government development and vaccine coverage performance in various countries through traditional regression and geographically weighted regression. The results show that a country's corruption control does positively affect its performance on COVID-19 vaccination. A country with a higher level of corruption control has better vaccine coverage performance. In Africa, the higher the level of corruption control, the higher the improvement in the performance of vaccination compared to other regions in the world.
The political mobilization effects of online communication have become a prominent political phenomenon in recent years. Given the convenience of internet usage, whether participants in political activities are more inclined to disseminate related political information online is a question worthy of exploration. This study focuses on the interaction between online echo chambers and political participation, investigating whether this interaction represents a unidirectional causal relationship or potentially a bidirectional reciprocal causality. Four research hypotheses are proposed: (1) online echo chambers contribute to increased participation in campaign activities; (2) online echo chambers promote higher voter turnout; (3) campaign participation reinforces participants' tendencies within online echo chambers; (4) voter turnout does not reinforce participants' tendencies within online echo chambers. By analyzing panel data collected from two waves of telephone interviews conducted during the 2024 Taiwan presidential election, all four research hypotheses proposed in this study are supported.