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David Cingranelli, professor of political science at Binghamton University, will give a lecture on “Comparative Human Rights in the New Age” 8 p.m. Thursday in the Oechsle Hall auditorium.
Free and open to the public, the talk is this year’s Daniel L. Golden ’34 Lecture.
Cingranelli will analyze how and why human rights have changed since the breakup of the former Soviet Union and the rise of international terrorism. A question-and-answer session and reception will follow.
Cingranelli, who earned his Ph.D. at University of Pennsylvania in 1977, has researched the measurement of human rights practices, the effect of the end of the Cold War on government respect for human rights, the relationships among different types of human rights, the dissent/repression linkage, and the relationship between the human rights practices of the governments of developing countries and the amounts and types of foreign aid they receive.
In 1993, he published a book, Ethics and American Foreign Policy Toward the Third World, and in 1996, he edited another book, Human Rights and Developing Countries.
Cingranelli is particularly interested in workers’ rights, which some believe are declining as a result of expansion of the capitalist system after the end of the Cold War. He is conducting a study of how globalization of the world capitalist economy and democratization is affecting workers’ rights around the world, and is collecting data for a book on development of U.S. policies toward workers’ rights.
In addition to his interests in comparative human rights practices, Cingranelli maintains a longstanding research program focused on American public policies. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, his published work focused on the issue of equity and urban service delivery policies.