David L. Richards

David L. Richards
Nationality	American
Fields	Political Science
Institutions	University of Connecticut
Alma mater	Binghamton University East Stroudsburg University The College of New Jersey Phillipsburg High School (New Jersey)
Known for	CIRI Human Rights Data Project Sonar. Music Reviews

David L. Richards is Associate Professor of Political Science and Human Rights at the University of Connecticut. He received his Ph.D. in 1999 from The State University of New York at Binghamton.

With David Cingranelli, Richards is the co-founder and co-director of the CIRI Human Rights Data Project, which provides annual ratings of government respect for 15 human rights in 195 countries, 1981-2009.

His work on human rights has been funded multiple times by The National Science Foundation, The World Bank, GTZ, and others.^[1][2]

Richards has also used his expertise on the subject of human rights to draw attention to human rights abuses worldwide. For instance, he was an outspoken advocate for the divestment of Tennessee state government funds from companies that continue to do business with the Sudanese government during the War in Darfur.^[3][4]

Richards is also Founder and Co-Editor, with Casey Box, of the music review site Sonar.^[5]

Representative Publications

• Cingranelli, David L. and David L. Richards. 2010. "The Cingranelli and Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Data Project." Human Rights Quarterly 32.2: 401-424.^[6]

• Richards, David L. and Ronald D. Gelleny. 2007. "Good Things to Those Who Wait? National Elections and Respect for Human Rights" Journal of Peace Research 44.4: 505-523.^[7]

• Richards, David L. and Ronald D. Gelleny. 2007. "Women's Status and Economic Globalization" International Studies Quarterly 51.4: 855-876.^[8]

• Richards, David L., Ronald Gelleny, and David Sacko. 2001. "Money With A Mean Streak? Foreign Economic Penetration and Government Respect for Human Rights in Developing Countries." International Studies Quarterly 45.2: 219-239.^[9]

• Cingranelli, David L., and David L. Richards. 1999. "Measuring the Pattern, Level, and Sequence of Government Respect for Human Rights,” International Studies Quarterly 43: 407-417.^[10]

References

1. ^ http://www.humanrightsdata.org/dlrnew/cv/drichcv.pdf
2. ^ http://ciri.binghamton.edu/sponsors.asp
3. ^ http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wkno/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1243648
4. ^ http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/mar/29/divestment-serves-purpose/
5. ^ http://sonarmusicreviews.blogspot.com/
6. ^ http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/human_rights_quarterly/v032/32.2.cingranelli.pdf
7. ^ http://jpr.sagepub.com/content/44/4/505.abstract
8. ^ http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2478.2007.00480.x/abstract
9. ^ http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/isqu/2001/00000045/00000002/art00002
10. ^ http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/0020-8833.00126/abstract

External links

• University of Connecticut - Political Science Division: David L. Richards faculty page

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Name	Richards, David L.
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Date of birth	1968
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