The Strategic Determinants of U.S. Human Rights Reporting: Evidence from The Cold War
利用国家面板数据，检验美国是否根据他国的战略价值而偏袒其人权报告，发现冷战期间与美国结盟的国家，其美国国务院的人权报告显著优于国际特赦组织的报告。
This paper uses a country-level panel dataset to test the hypothesis that the United States biases its human rights reports of countries based on the latters ’ strategic value. We use the difference between the U.S. State Department’s and Amnesty International’s reports as a measure of U.S. "bias". For plausibly exogenous variation in strategic value to the U.S., we compare this bias between U.S. Cold War (CW) allies to non-CW allies, before and after the CW ended. The results show that allying with the U.S. during the CW significantly improves reports on a country’s human rights situation from the U.S. State Department relative to Amnesty International. 1