Citizens and Condemnation: Strategic Uses of International Human Rights Pressure in Authoritarian States
Citizens and Condemnation: Strategic Uses of International Human Rights Pressure in Authoritarian States
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DOI：
10.1177/0010414018784066
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发表时间：
2019-03-01
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5
通讯作者：
Gruffydd-Jones, Jamie J.
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作者：
Gruffydd-Jones, Jamie J.
政府严格控制其公民从外国渠道听到的信息，是人权压力的经常目标，但我们对这些信息在国内领域的重要性知之甚少。我认为，威权政权战略性地将某些类型的外部压力传递给他们的公众，要求他们将侵犯人权的行为“国际化”，让公民从国际上捍卫自己国家的角度来看待人权，而不是从个人侵犯的角度来看待人权，并使他们更有可能对政府的行为感到满意。通过对中国官方媒体关于外部人权压力的报道的统计分析，以及对中国公民对妇女权利压力反应的调查实验，我发现这一模型得到了强有力的支持。这一分析表明，威权政权或许能够操纵国际人权外交，帮助他们在压制人权的同时保留人民的支持。
Governments with strict control over the information that their citizens hear from foreign sources are regular targets of human rights pressure, but we know little about how this information matters in the domestic realm. I argue that authoritarian regimes strategically pass on certain types of external pressure to their public to "internationalize" human rights violations, making citizens view human rights in terms of defending their nation internationally rather than in terms of individual violations, and making them more likely to be satisfied with their government's behavior. I find strong support for this model through statistical analysis of Chinese state media reports of external human rights pressure and a survey experiment on Chinese citizens' responses to pressure on women's rights. This analysis demonstrates that authoritarian regimes may be able to manipulate international human rights diplomacy to help them retain the support of their population while suppressing their human rights.