Current Research
Articles in progress:
- Policy-specific human rights shaming: Evidence from the Other Letters of the UN Special Procedures
- How user language affects conflict fatality estimates in ChatGPT (with Daniel Kazenwadel)
- The Belt and Road Initiative and voting patterns in the UN General Assembly (with David Weyrauch)
- The rise of China and voting behavior in the UN Human Rights Council (with Valentin Lang and David Weyrauch)
- Autocratic investments and perceptions on human rights in Europe (with Sabine Carey)
- Human rights complaints and the repression of civil society organizations (with Hannah Smidt)
- Attitudes towards arms exports among politicians and citizens in European democracies (with Tobias Risse)
- ESG regulations, firm performance, and sustainability commitments: Evidence from the French supply chain law (with Bernhard Reinsberg)
- Providing effective remedy? Independent accountability mechanisms in German development cooperation (with Angela Heucher, Tobias Polak, and Martin Bruder)
Book project:
Topic: Patterns of Selective Representation in International Human Rights Bodies (more to come…)
Dataset on membership in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI):
For our research project on the impact of membership in the BRI on voting behavior in the UN General Assembly, we collected novel global data on BRI membership for all states in the international system.