Replication Data for: States living in glasshouses …: Why fighting domestic insurgency changes how countries vote in the UN human rights council

How do conflicts within a country's borders affect its behavior beyond them? We argue that fighting insurgencies at home shapes a country's human rights posture at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). States often suppress insurgencies using methods that violate their international human rights commitments. They are therefore hesitant to condemn other countries’ alleged violations for fear of reciprocal condemnation of their own actions. This is especially true in countries with greater media freedom where the media is more likely to hold the state accountable for human rights violations, and to highlight its apparent hypocrisy internationally. Such states, we argue, are more likely to vote against or abstain from resolutions that target individual states for human rights transgressions. We test this claim with a global statistical analysis of country voting patterns at the UNHRC from 1973 to 2017. Our results yield new insights into the determinants of countries’ voting behavior in multilateral human rights fora.一国境内的反政府叛乱冲突会如何影响该国的境外行为？我们提出，国内平叛行动会塑造一国在联合国人权理事会（UN Human Rights Council，UNHRC）中的人权立场。各国在镇压反政府叛乱的过程中，往往会采用违反本国国际人权义务的手段，因此往往不愿谴责他国所谓的人权侵犯行为，以免本国的类似行为遭到对等谴责。在媒体自由度更高的国家，这种现象尤为突出：当地媒体更有可能追究政府在人权侵犯问题上的责任，并在国际层面揭露该国明显的虚伪行径。我们认为，这类国家更有可能在针对特定国家人权侵犯行为的决议中投反对票或弃权。我们基于1973年至2017年联合国人权理事会成员国的投票模式开展全球统计分析，对上述论点进行了验证，本研究结果为理解多边人权论坛中国家投票行为的决定因素提供了新的洞见。