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Prorok, Alyssa Vasquez, John Prorok, Alyssa Vasquez, John Dai, Xinyuan Gaines , Brian 2022-08 application/pdf en text Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01 The student, Navida Chun-Han Wang, accepted the attached license on 2022-07-06 at 21:04. The student, Navida Chun-Han Wang, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2022-07-06 at 21:14. This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2022-07-08 at 17:20. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #18159 on 2022-11-16 at 10:17:48 On human rights: International institutions, domestic factors and incentivizing changes Wang, Navida Chun-Han 2022-07-08 International Relations International Organizations Human Rights The fundamental issue with the international human rights regime is that there is no strong mechanism for enforcement. At the same time, external pressure from the international community has not always produced progress and states can fend off external pressure rather than engaging in behavioral changes. My research is grounded in an understanding of domestic politics where I place emphasis on how the political environment shapes a leader’s calculus and state behavior. In three studies, I explore three different domestic mechanisms—the power of veto players, government accountability, and autocratic leader-elite relations—and theorize how each mechanism affects a state’s human rights practices. I also investigate how various domestic mechanisms interact with the United Nations Human Rights Council and National Human Rights Institutions, using empirical strategies, including matching and instrumental variables design, to address issues of endogeneity. This dissertation underscores the role of domestic politics as an essential component to pressure states for human rights policy reforms and as a determinant in the likelihood that human rights advocacy will be successful in bringing about better human rights conditions. My research enriches our understanding of the conditional effect of human rights institutions and the dynamics of repression, sheds light on the global trends in human rights, and has implications for human rights institutions and advocacy. Thesis eng https://hdl.handle.net/2142/115891 Copyright 2022 Navida Chun-Han Wang Ph.D. Dissertation Political Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Political Science