There are over 250,000 international treaties that aim to foster global cooperation. But are
treaties actually helpful for addressing global challenges? This systematic field-wide …

Much modern social theory depicts society as made up of autonomous and purposive
individual and organized actors. In reaction, the new institutional theories build arguments …

The pervasive spread of rationalizing trends in society, such as the growing influence of
managerial sciences and increasing emphases on accountability and transparency, has …

According to indicators of political repression currently used by scholars, human rights
practices have not improved over the past 35 years, despite the spread of human rights …

'The Power of Human Rights'(published in 1999) was an innovative and influential
contribution to the study of international human rights. At its center was a'spiral model'of …

Under increased pressure to report environmental impacts, some firms selectively disclose
relatively benign impacts, creating an impression of transparency while masking their true …

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 …

How will advances in digital technology affect the future of human rights and authoritarian
rule? Media figures, public intellectuals, and scholars have debated this relationship for …

The international doctrine of human rights is one of the most ambitious parts of the
settlement of World War II. Since then, the language of human rights has become the …

The empirical literature that examines cross-national patterns of state repression seeks to
discover a set of political, economic, and social conditions that are consistently associated …