Hannah Smidt
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Prof. PhD
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Smidt
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Hannah
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hannah.smidt@unisg.ch
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Item type:Publication, A red flag for public goods? The correlates of civil society restrictionsGovernments increasingly restrict civil society organizations (CSOs). Different theories converge on the expectation that CSOs are important for public goods. A largely unexplored implication is that increased restrictions on CSOs will signal the under-delivery of public goods. Using data on government-imposed restrictions on CSOs for a global sample of countries, we test this implication. Controlling for unobserved crosscountry heterogeneity, temporal shocks, and con-This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Type:journal articleJournal:GovernanceVolume:38Issue:2Scopus© Citations 3 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Many hurdles to take: Explaining peacekeepers’ ability to engage in human rights activities(2025); - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, The Backlash Against Civil Society Participation in International Organizations: The Case of Human Rights Complaints MechanismsWhat are the repressive consequences of civil society participation in international human rights complaints mechanisms? Such mechanisms allow civil society actors to make governments' human rights violations known to international organizations. International organizations can respond by 'naming and shaming' states. We expect that complaint-based shaming increases repression against civil society organizations (CSOs). In particular, governments exploit the specific and personalized information contained in complaint-based shaming to repress challengers and deter future complaints. We test our theory with three studies-(i) a cross-national analysis, (ii) a CSO-level analysis with original survey data, and (iii) a media-based analysisusing multiple identification strategies, including instrumental variables. Our evidence shows that shaming in response to complaints has detrimental effects for CSOs in both democracies and autocracies. Our findings highlight that personalized shaming creates the risk of targeted reprisals and call for reforms that take this risk more seriously.Type:journal articleJournal:British Journal of Political ScienceVolume:55Scopus© Citations 1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, UN peacekeeping upon deployment: Peacekeeping activities in theory and practiceUnited Nations peacekeeping operations (UNPKO) have been deployed in conflict-affected countries for decades. While we thoroughly understand what UNPKOs are mandated to do, there is little research on what activities peacekeepers actually do upon deployment in their host countries and in which sequence, if any. To address this gap, we formulate descriptive hypotheses about the number of implemented peacekeeping activities, the expansion toward new activity categories, and the sequencing of implemented activities. We use the novel Extended Peacekeeping Activity Dataset to evaluate our theoretical expectations for all UNPKOs deployed after the end of the Cold War until 2017. Our findings show that UNPKOs implement more activities over time. Yet, the expansion of UNPKOs' activities into new activity categories by generation (second, third, and stabilization) is not as clear-cut in practice as expected. Instead, there is a notable expansion of activities within activity categories-especially during thirdgeneration UNPKOs. Finally, we find a security-first sequencing for second-and third-generation UNPKOs, while stabilization UNPKOs implement a high share of security activities long after initial deployment.Type:journal articleJournal:Cooperation and ConflictVolume:59Issue:4Scopus© Citations 6 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, A Red Flag for Public Goods? The Correlates of Closing Civic Space(2024); Scopus© Citations 3 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Civil Society Under Attack: The Consequences for Horizontal Accountability Institutions(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2024-02-01); Scopus© Citations 13 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, (UN-)Protected Elections – Left for Good? Withdrawal of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations and Its Effects on Violence During Electoral Periods in War-Affected CountriesType:journal articleJournal:International PeacekeepingVolume:30Issue:2Scopus© Citations 3 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, When do UN peacekeeping operations implement their mandates?(2021); Scopus© Citations 39 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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