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Overview

Erik Voeten is affiliated with Georgetown University in the United States. Their academic work primarily engages with fields within the social sciences, particularly political science and international relations, law, strategy and management, economics and econometrics, and development.

Their research spans several key topics, including:

  • European and International Law Studies
  • Judicial and Constitutional Studies
  • International Arbitration and Investment Law
  • International Relations and Foreign Policy
  • International Development and Aid
  • Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation

Among recent papers associated with them are:

  • "Backlash and Judicial Restraint: Evidence from the European Court of Human Rights," 2020, published in International Studies Quarterly
  • "Legitimacy challenges to the liberal world order: Evidence from United Nations speeches, 1970-2018," 2020, published in The Review of International Organizations
  • "Sovereignty, Substance, and Public Support for European Courts' Human Rights Rulings," 2021, published in American Political Science Review
  • "The Energy Transition and Support for the Radical Right: Evidence from the Netherlands," 2024, published in Comparative Political Studies
  • "Walking Back Human Rights in Europe?," 2020, published in European Journal of International Law

They have frequently collaborated with several co-authors, including:

  • Anton Strezhnev
  • Michael Bailey
  • Øyvind Stiansen
  • Laurence R. Helfer
  • Mikael Rask Madsen

Erik Voeten's publications are often found in prominent academic venues such as:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Comparative Political Studies
  • American Political Science Review
  • European Journal of International Law

In terms of book publications, Voeten has works published by Princeton University Press, including multiple editions of "Ideology and International Institutions," all released in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Estimating Dynamic State Preferences from United Nations Voting Data

    Michael A. Bailey;Anton Strezhnev;Erik Voeten

  • Clashes in the Assembly

    Erik Voeten

  • The Cost of Shame: International Organizations and Foreign Aid in the Punishing of Human Rights Violators

    James H. Lebovic;Erik Voeten

  • Outside Options and the Logic of Security Council Action

    Erik Voeten

  • The Politics of Shame: The Condemnation of Country Human Rights Practices in the UNCHR

    James H. Lebovic;Erik Voeten

  • The Impartiality of International Judges: Evidence from the European Court of Human Rights

    Erik Voeten

  • United Nations General Assembly Voting Data

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  • Analyzing Roll Calls with Perfect Spatial Voting: France 1946–1958

    Howard Rosenthal;Erik Voeten

  • Data and analyses of voting in the United Nations General Assembly

    Erik Voeten

  • Resisting the Lonely Superpower: Responses of States in the United Nations to U.S. Dominance

    Erik Voeten

  • International Courts as Agents of Legal Change: Evidence from LGBT Rights in Europe

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  • International Courts as Agents of Legal Change: Evidence from LGBT Rights in Europe

    Laurence R. Helfer;Erik Voeten

  • Public Opinion and the Legitimacy of International Courts

    Erik Voeten

  • Public Opinion, the War in Iraq, and Presidential Accountability

    Erik Voeten;Paul R. Brewer

  • The Politics of International Judicial Appointments: Evidence from the European Court of Human Rights

    Erik Voeten

  • The relational politics of shame: Evidence from the universal periodic review

    Rochelle Terman;Erik Voeten

  • Populism and Backlashes against International Courts

    Erik Voeten

  • Borrowing and Nonborrowing among International Courts

    Erik Voeten

  • Party competition in the European Parliament. Evidence from Roll Call and Survey Analysis

    Jacques J. A. Thomassen;Abdul G. Noury;Erik Voeten

  • Data and Analyses of Voting in the UN General Assembly

    Erik Voeten

  • Legitimacy challenges to the liberal world order: Evidence from United Nations speeches, 1970–2018

    Alexander Kentikelenis;Alexander Kentikelenis;Erik Voeten

  • Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Law and International Relations: Enforcement, Compliance, and Effectiveness

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  • Making Sense of the Design of International Institutions

    Erik Voeten

  • Are People Really Turning Away from Democracy

    Erik Voeten

  • Precedent in International Courts: A Network Analysis of Case Citations by the European Court of Human Rights

    Yonatan Lupu;Erik Voeten

  • Competition and Complementarity between Global and Regional Human Rights Institutions

    Erik Voeten

  • Domestic Implementation of European Court of Human Rights Judgments: Legal Infrastructure and Government Effectiveness Matter: A Reply to Dia Anagnostou and Alina Mungiu-Pippidi

    Erik Voeten

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurence R. Helfer
Laurence R. Helfer Duke University
Howard Rosenthal
Howard Rosenthal New York University
Jacques J.A. Thomassen
Jacques J.A. Thomassen University of Twente
Yonatan Lupu
Yonatan Lupu George Washington University
Michael L. Ross
Michael L. Ross University of California, Los Angeles
Lee Sigelman
Lee Sigelman George Washington University
Paul R. Brewer
Paul R. Brewer University of Delaware

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