Responding to Criticism: Treaty Reservation Withdrawal by Regime Type

This social science dataset by Kelebogile Zvobgo (Journal of Human Rights) tracks treaty reservation withdrawals across autocratic and democratic regimes. It contains statistical observations comparing state responses to technical treaty body reviews and political peer objections.

Use Cases

• Modeling the likelihood of reservation withdrawal based on regime type
• Evaluating the impact of treaty body reviews conducted by technical experts on state compliance
• Analyzing the effectiveness of peer state objections from Western democracies on non-democratic states

Strengths

• Distinguishes between technical expert reviews and political peer objections
• Includes both statistical data and case illustrations
• Focuses specifically on the behavior of non-democratic states in international law

Limitations

• Metadata does not specify the exact number of records or the specific years covered
• Lack of explicit column definitions in the provided summary

Provenance

Source

Journal of Human Rights (JHR) Dataverse

Collection Method

Replication data from academic research

Freshness

Last updated February 2026.

Geography

Global