Weyrauch, David Benjamin; Steinert, Christoph Valentin - In: The Review of International Organizations 17 (2021) 1, pp. 89-115
Why do states' human rights records converge with co-members in intergovernmental organizations (IGOs)? This study … norm diffusion is a consequence of instrumental processes. We leverage information about the timing of human rights … investigate the distance on human rights indices between individual states and IGO means. While we find evidence for systematic …