Christoph Valentin Steinert

Even in times of sociocultural conflict, a progressive left electorate is more averse to sociocultural *and* socioeconomic inequalities than (far) right voters.

New paper with @siljahausermann.bsky.social Palmtag @tabouchadi.bsky.social @stefwalter.bsky.social Berkinshaw
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New UN ideal point estimates available. These are for the first time based on years rather than UNGA sessions. For more, see here: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

NGOs are often unsure how to help refugees. For example, when refugees without rights seek help repatriating, NGOs may feel helping makes them complicit in forced returns, but not helping forces refugees to remain. I consider how dilemmas like these can be resolved. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Infectious disease outbreaks drive political mistrust | PNAS The COVID-19 pandemic has renewed attention to the far-reaching social implications of emerging infectious diseases, an issue with historical paral...

Very happy that the joint paper with Ore Koren on infectious diseases and trust in politics has now been published: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... A nice result of his fellowship at @uni-konstanz.de, funded by the @humboldt-foundation.de!

Our findings call into question the business lobby’s narrative of severe economic harm resulting from due diligence law.
For more details, see: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... (5/5)

Employing a difference-in-difference analysis, we find no evidence that the law significantly affected the likelihood of profit of regulated firms. Furthermore, we observe no discernible impact on key profit drivers. (4/5)

We analyzed this question with a large-scale empirical analysis of the French due diligence law ("loi de vigilance"), which is in effect since 2017, based on a large dataset of 11,504 firms. (3/5)

The German economist Lars Feld even claimed that the German due diligence law "takes an axe to the success model of the [export-based] economy". But is it really true that regulation through due diligence laws harms the economic performance of European companies? (2/5)

Due diligence laws make firms liable for human rights violations and environmental damage in their supply chains. But the business lobby heavily criticizes these laws because of the required bureaucracy and potential compliance costs, which may create economic disadvantages. (1/5)

At present, complaints to the UN Special Procedures ‘by default include the name(s) of the alleged victim(s)’. In light of our findings, we think that the standard practice should be to withhold victims’ names from communications and to allow anonymous complaints from the outset. (8/8)

The UN and other international organizations need greater capacity to monitor the fate of civil society organizations after their cooperation with them, ideally, through the establishment of measures along the lines of national witness programs. (7/8)

Against this backdrop, it is essential that the UN and other international organizations make every effort to address and minimize the risk of state reprisals in response to citizens’ interactions with their mechanisms and agencies. (6/8)

Important policy implications can be drawn from our study. If civil society’s human rights defenders rightly fear negative repercussions for their participation in mechanisms of international human rights organizations, this threatens the core mission of these organizations. (5/8)

Representatives of civil society organizations report deteriorating relations with governments and are more likely to be the subject of media reports of state repression after their names appear in UN Special Procedures communications. (4/8)

Additional analyses show that this repressive backlash occurs in both autocracies and democracies. The evidence further highlights that governments specifically target those civil society organizations that are involved in submitting complaints. (3/8)

Our evidence from the complaint mechanism of the UN Special Procedures suggests that individual complaints are associated with increasing repression of civil society organizations and a surge of state reprisals against civil society actors that cooperate with the UN. (2/8)

How does filing complaints to the United Nations affect the human rights situation of civil society organizations? To learn more about this question, check out our publication (with the fantastic Hannah Smidt) in the British Journal of Political Science. (1/8)
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How does participation in the human rights complaint mechanisms of the United Nations affect the situation of civil society organizations? To learn more on this question, please check out our new publication @bjpols.bsky.social

BJPolS abstract describing a study on the consequences of civil society participation in international human rights complaints mechanisms, specifically focusing on the effectiveness of shaming and repressing strategies by civil society organizations (CSOs). The study uses three original surveys and data analysis to explore government responses to CSO strategies, highlighting potential risks associated with personalized shaming tactics.

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The Backlash Against Civil Society Participation in International Organizations: The Case of Human Rights Complaints Mechanisms - cup.org/463Vb1m

- @chrisvsteinert.bsky.social & Hannah Marietta Smidt

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Can banning political ideologies protect democracy? 🛡️🆚🗣️

Our (w. @valentimvicente.bsky.social) paper finds: punishing individuals might backfire. We study a West German policy banning "extreme left" individuals from working for the state.

#Democracy #PoliticalScience

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Our article (with @madselk.bsky.social, @jacobnyrup.bsky.social, @benansell.bsky.social, @aslicansunar.bsky.social, and Laure Bokobza) on why it is so hard to counteract wealth inequality through inheritance taxation is out in @worldpolitics.bsky.social!

(1/5) My article Disintegration and Party Competition is out in the latest issue of @jeppjournal.bsky.social ! I ask how parties in other member states reacted to #Brexit. Do #Eurosceptic challengers frame it as an example to follow? Or do they instead row back on ‘hard’ demands to #leave the EU?

Working on crises in urban setting and wanting to spend some time in Zurich? I have a fellowship for you!

Hosted by the UZH Crisis Competence Center: www.crisiscompetence.uzh.ch

Version 2.0 of the National Elections Database is online! nationalelectionsdatabase.com
We cover presidential and parliamentary elections 1789–2023, extending the post-1945 data of Electoral Turnovers @reveconstudies.bsky.social (academic.oup.com/restud/advan...)
w/ Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet

International organizations in national parliamentary debates - The Review of International Organizations This data article introduces IOParlspeech, an original dataset of over 600,000 statements on international organizations (IOs) in parliamentary debates in six countries between 1990 and 2018. We expla...

DISINTEGRATION publ #13: IOParlspeech—600k+ parliamentary statements on IOs across 6 countries (1990–2018). @stefwalter.bsky.social & @tommccraehunter.bsky.social show that radical/opposition MPs speak more negatively about IOs, and auhtoritative IOs receive more attention.
doi.org/10.1007/s115...

ChatGPT decreases idea diversity in brainstorming - Nature Human Behaviour Nature Human Behaviour - ChatGPT decreases idea diversity in brainstorming

“reliance on ChatGPT for idea generation comes with a trade-off: while enhancing individual ideas' creativity, it reduces the diversity of ideas in a pool of ideas-a critical element for effective brainstorming”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Here is the thing about science.
And knowledge, more generally.
And art.
And music.
They are universal.
A scholar who only reads books from authors with the right passport is no scholar at all.

Illiberal Norm Diffusion: How Do Governments Learn to Restrict Nongovernmental Organizations? Abstract. Recent decades have witnessed a global cascade of restrictive and repressive measures against nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). We theorize t

It's interesting how autocrats copy repressive laws from their neighbors. Check out the study "Illiberal Norm Diffusion: How Do Governments Learn to Restrict Nongovernmental Organizations?" by Galsius and colleagues who trace these patterns in a systematic manner.... academic.oup.com/isq/article/...

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📌 New paper out in @conflictmanagement.bsky.social

➡️ Individuals exposed to severe and somatic forms of violence are more likely to favour political and negotiated solutions. Evidence for the "violence begets war-weariness" hypothesis!

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Car use and meat consumption drive emissions gender gap, research suggests The French study of 15,000 people shows men emit 26% more pollution due to eating red meat and driving more

"Men emit 26% more planet-heating pollution than women from transport and food, according to a preprint study of 15,000 people in France. The gap shrinks to 18% after controlling for socioeconomic factors such as income and education."