David L. Cingranelli
Professor
Department of Political Science
Binghamton University
United States of America
Biography
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 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. Presently, he and Mikhail Filippov are working in collaboration with the United States Political Instability Task Force on a successor to the CIRI project, which will be called the “Rights†data project.
Research Interest
human rights, democracy, and governance
Publications
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Cingranelli DL, Pasquarello TE. Human rights practices and the distribution of US foreign aid to Latin American countries. American Journal of Political Science. 1985 Aug 1:539-63.
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Cingranelli DL, Richards DL. Measuring the level, pattern, and sequence of government respect for physical integrity rights. International studies quarterly. 1999 Jun 1;43(2):407-17.
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Cingranelli DL, Richards DL. The Cingranelli and Richards (CIRI) human rights data project. Human Rights Quarterly. 2010;32(2):401-24.
