Information Politics Versus Organizational Incentives: When Are Amnesty International's "Naming and Shaming" Reports Biased?

International Studies Quarterly

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 219-232

  Hill, Daniel W ^a   Moore, Will H ^b   Mukherjee, Bumba ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOVERNMENT RELATIONS; HUMAN RIGHTS; MEDIA ROLE; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY;

EID: 84879382785     PISSN: 00208833     EISSN: 14682478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/isqu.12022     Document Type: Article

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