TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ullmann, Andreas J.
A1  - von Staden, Andreas
T1  - A room full of ‘views’
BT  - introducing a new dataset to explore compliance with the decisions of the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies’ individual complaints procedures
JF  - Journal of conflict resolution
N2  - Quantitative research into the effectiveness of the UN human rights treaty bodies (UNTBs) in eliciting remedial responses from states is impeded by a lack of usable data on how states respond to their decisions. The new Treaty Body Views Dataset (TBVD) aims to fill this gap. It comprises details on all published decisions in individual complaints cases issued by the UNTBs between 1979 and 2019 and matches these with information on their state of compliance. The TBVD can be used for research on the activities of the treaty bodies, the nature of the decisions themselves, or state behavior following a decision. An empirical application illustrates how the TBVD can advance knowledge about the factors that correlate with compliance with adverse UNTB decisions. Results show that the likelihood of implementation hinges critically on decision-level characteristics, and reveal differences and similarities between compliance with UNTB decisions and regional human rights court judgments.
KW  - human rights
KW  - international institutions
KW  - second-order compliance
KW  - individual complaints procedures
KW  - UN human rights treaty bodies
Y1  - 2023
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/00220027231160460
SN  - 0022-0027
SN  - 1552-8766
VL  - 68
IS  - 2-3
SP  - 534
EP  - 561
PB  - Sage Publications
CY  - Thousand Oaks
ER  -