How do international sports events shape repression in authoritarian host countries?
International tournaments promise unique gains in political prestige through global media …

Conventional wisdom treats politicization in the international human rights regime as
invariant: for any given violation, states condemn adversaries while coddling friends …

How do international audiences perceive, and respond to, gender equality reforms in
autocracies? For autocrats, the post-Cold War rewards associated with democracy create …

A growing chorus of critics have called upon transnational nongovernmental organizations
(TNGOs) from the Global North to “decolonize” their practices, to “shift the power” to the …

Human rights prosecutions addressing wartime crimes are often credited with deterring
future rights abuses, but routinely occur alongside state repression. This article develops a …

In the last decade, international relations scholarship on shaming by non-governmental
organizations has grown dramatically, providing us with many insights into how country …

The credibility revolution advances the use of research designs that permit identification and
estimation of causal effects. However, understanding which mechanisms produce measured …

This article reconsiders the role of mechanisms in social science research. The study of
mechanisms has been recognized as a fundamental task for a methodologically diverse …

Understanding causal mechanisms is essential for explaining and generalizing empirical
phenomena. Causal mediation analysis offers statistical techniques to quantify mediation …

Standard models in political science require scholars to make strong assumptions about the
data generating process, often with limited guidance from theory or background knowledge …