Expansion and Impact of the World Human Rights Regime:Longitudinal and Cross-National Analyses Over the Twentieth Century

该项目开发了一个世界级的全球组织和专门讨论人权问题的纵向衡量标准。 对这一措施预期增长的时间序列分析侧重于国际冲突和国际组织的兴起，认为这是主要原因。 另一系列分析将侧重于这一全球人权制度的兴起对各国政策和实际做法的影响。 虽然经济发展等国家一级的因素也影响国家人权政策和做法，但全球人权制度的发展以及一国与全球系统的联系也是国家一级人权变化的主要原因。

This project develops a world-level, longitudinal measure of global organizations and discourse devoted to human rights. Time series analyses of the expected growth in this measure focus on international conflicts and the rise of international organizations as principal causes. Another series of analyses would focus on the consequences of the rise of this global human rights regime for the policies and for the actual practices of individual nations. While national-level factors such as economic development also affect national human rights policies and practices, the growth of the global human rights regime and a nation's connections with the global system are also major explanations for nation-level changes in human rights.