The Political Consequences of Ethnically Targeted Incarceration: Evidence from Japanese American Internment during World War II
What are the downstream political consequences of state activity explicitly targeting an ethnic minority group?
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The reversal of reproductive rights in America is contrary to global trends. Why? Compared with similar Western democracies, Republican voters are exceptionally socially conservative, religious and au
Last week’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade, ending the right to an abortion in the US, allowed many Red states to adopt some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world.
Holding Together: The Hijacking of Rights in America and How to Reclaim Them for Everyone
An overwhelming majority of Americans agree that rights are essential to their freedom, and that rights today are severely threatened.
On Revolutions: Unruly Politics in the Contemporary World
On Revolutions, co-authored by six prominent scholars of revolutions, reinvigorates revolutionary studies for the twenty-first century.
Political Science Did Not Provide Us with the Insights We Needed. An Interview
Kathryn Sikkink (* 1955) is a political scientist who has contributed considerably to making human rights a field of research.
The Moral Dimension of AI-Assisted Decision-Making: Some Practical Perspectives from the Front Lines
This essay takes an engineering approach to ensuring that the deployment of artificial intelligence does not confound ethical principles, even in sensitive applications like national security.
The Imperative of Sustaining (Rather than Destroying) Frontline Empathic Solidarity for Distress Migrants Fortress (North) America
Migration policies have direct and dramatic impacts on distress migrants. They also affect the frontline local host communities migrants depend on.
Diálogos con Shevy sobre derechos humanos, responsabilidades y ciudadanÃa
Mis diálogos con Elizabeth [Shevy] Jelin sobre derechos humanos y ciudadanÃa datan de comienzos de la década de 1990, cuando yo recién comenzaba a investigar en esta área y ella ya estaba trabajando c
International migration of unaccompanied minors: trends, health risks, and legal protection
The global population of unaccompanied minors—children and adolescents younger than 18 years who migrate without their legal guardians—is increasing.
The Fourth Generation of Human Rights: Epistemic Rights in Digital Lifeworlds
In contrast to China’s enormous efforts to upgrade its system of governance to a new technological level built around a stupefying amount of data collection and electronic scoring, countries committed
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