David is a Professor of Political Science. He has written widely on human rights, democracy, and governance. His 2007 book with Rodwan Abouharb, Human Rights and Structural Adjustment, (Cambridge University Press) demonstrated the negative human rights impacts of World Bank and IMF program lending in developing countries. He is a former President of the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association. Until 2012, he served as the co-director of the Cingranelli and Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Data Project, the largest and most widely used human rights data set in the world.
We measure what we treasure. I sincerely believe that anything we care about in this world, we measure, whether it’s how much we weigh or how fast we are at the 50-yard dash. If you don’t measure it, how could you change it?
Launched last year, the GRIP report draws on the world's largest quantitative human rights dataset—the CIRIGHTS Data Project—to grade each of the world's countries on a 100-point scale. CIRIGHTS, which was launched by researchers at URI and Binghamton University
Worker rights are among the least protected human rights in the world, according to new research from faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York.
Students get report cards; maybe countries should as well. David Cingranelli, professor of political science at Binghamton University, explains why. David Cingranelli is a Professor of Political Science. He has written widely on human rights, democracy, and governance. His 2007 book with Rodwan Abouharb, Human Rights and Structural Adjustment, (Cambridge University Press) demonstrated the negative […]