Replication Data for: The Global Resonance of Human Rights: What Google Trends Can Tell Us

Project files for an article titled: \"The Search for Human Rights: A Global Analysis Using Google Data\", conditionally accepted at American Political Science Review. The files in this reproduction archive exist here: https://github.com/CJFariss/Human-Rights-Search; and a static version exists at the APSR dataverse archive here: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/the_review. Article Abstract: Where is the human rights discourse most resonant? We use aggregated cross-national Google search data to test two divergent accounts of why human rights appeal to some populations but not others. The top-down model predicts that nationwide interest in human rights is attributable mainly to external factors like foreign direct investment, transnational NGO campaigns, or international legalization, where the bottom-up model highlights the importance of internal factors like economic growth and persistent repression. We find more evidence for the latter model: not only is interest in human rights more concentrated in the Global South, the discourse is most resonant where people face regular violence at the hands of their home government. In drawing these inferences, this article confronts high-level debates over whether human rights will remain relevant in the future, and whether the discourse still animates counter-hegemonic modes of resistance. These answer to both questions, our research suggests, is “yes.”本项目文件对应一篇题为《追寻人权：基于谷歌（Google）数据的全球分析》的学术论文，该文已获《美国政治科学评论》（American Political Science Review）有条件录用。本复刻档案中的相关文件存放于：https://github.com/CJFariss/Human-Rights-Search；静态存档版本可于哈佛大学数据视界（Harvard Dataverse）的《美国政治科学评论》专属存档库中获取，链接为：https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/the_review。 论文摘要：人权话语在哪一语境下最具感染力？我们采用跨国聚合谷歌搜索数据，对“人权为何仅对部分群体具有吸引力”这两种相悖的理论解释展开实证检验。自上而下模型主张，一国国民对人权的关注主要源于外商直接投资、跨国非政府组织运动或国际法治化进程等外部因素；而自下而上模型则强调经济增长与持续镇压等内部因素的关键作用。我们的研究结果更支持后者：不仅人权关注度更多集中于全球南方地区，且该话语在民众持续遭受本国政府暴力行径的语境下最具感染力。本研究在推导结论的同时，回应了两项学界核心争论：人权在未来是否仍将保有现实意义，以及该话语是否仍能催生反霸权式抵抗行动。我们的研究表明，两项问题的答案均为“是”。