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Death Penalty in the United States: “Conditions That Are Completely Devoid of Humanity”

This article is an interview I conducted with Thea Posel, a clinical assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin in the Capital Punishment Clinic at Texas Law and the …

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Quality Assessment of the Academic Freedom Index: Strengths, Weaknesses, and How Best to Use It

A comprehensive review of the data quality of the first systematic global measurement of academic freedom, the Academic Freedom Index (AFI).

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International Attention and the Protection of Human Rights Defenders: Campaigning for Agents of Change

This book uses a practice-driven and empirically founded approach to address the question of whether and how international attention can protect and enable domestic human rights …

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Journal articles
Janika Spannagel, Thea Posel (2025). Death Penalty in the United States: “Conditions That Are Completely Devoid of Humanity”. Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte.
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Kriszta Kovács, Janika Spannagel (2025). Academic Freedom: Global Variations in Norm Conceptualization, Diffusion and Contestation – An Introduction. Global Constitutionalism.
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Tanja A. Börzel, Janika Spannagel (2025). The Globalization of Academic Freedom. Global Constitutionalism.
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Lars Lott, Janika Spannagel (2025). Quality Assessment of the Academic Freedom Index: Strengths, Weaknesses, and How Best to Use It. Perspectives on Politics.
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Janika Spannagel (2025). The Constitutional Codification of Academic Freedom Over Time and Space. Global Constitutionalism.
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Janika Spannagel (2024). Introducing Academic Freedom in Constitutions: A New Global Dataset, 1789–2022. European Political Science.
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Janika Spannagel (2024). Die Ambivalenz des Zweifels. Wissenschaftsfeindlichkeit als Gefahrenquelle für die liberale Ordnung. Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte.
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Janika Spannagel, Katrin Kinzelbach (2023). The Academic Freedom Index and Its Indicators: Introduction to New Global Time-Series V-Dem Data. Quality & Quantity.
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Katrin Kinzelbach, Ilyas Saliba, Janika Spannagel (2022). Global Data on the Freedom Indispensable for Scientific Research: Towards a Reconciliation of Academic Reputation and Academic Freedom. The International Journal of Human Rights.
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Janika Spannagel (2019). Ereignisdaten: Irrlichter in der Erfassung menschenrechtlicher Trends. Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte.
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Books
Janika Spannagel (2023). International Attention and the Protection of Human Rights Defenders: Campaigning for Agents of Change. Routledge.
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Kirsten Roberts Lyer, Ilyas Saliba, Janika Spannagel (2022). University Autonomy Decline: Causes, Responses, and Implications for Academic Freedom. Routledge.
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Book chapters
Janika Spannagel (2025). Repressalien gegen Menschenrechtsverteidiger:innen im Umfeld der UNO: Monitoring und Maßnahmen. Engagiert für die Menschenrechte: Festschrift für Michael Krennerich.
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Janika Spannagel (2023). Menschenrechte als demokratische Praxis: Eine Auseinandersetzung mit Hannah Arendt. Die Freiheit der Menschenrechte: Festschrift für Heiner Bielefeldt zum 65. Geburtstag.
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Janika Spannagel (2020). Erklärung zu Menschenrechtsverteidigern (1998). Quellen zur Geschichte der Menschenrechte: Kommentierte Schlüsseltexte.
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Janika Spannagel (2020). Measuring Academic Freedom Across the World: Insights From a New Exploratory Project. Bologna process beyond 2020: Fundamental values of the EHEA.
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Janika Spannagel (2020). The Perks and Hazards of Data Sources on Academic Freedom: An Inventory. Researching Academic Freedom: Guidelines and Sample Case Studies.
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Katrin Kinzelbach, Janika Spannagel (2018). New Ways to Address an Old Problem: Political Repression. Rising to the Populist Challenge: A New Playbook for Human Rights Actors.
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Policy Papers and Reports
Katrin Kinzelbach, Staffan Lindberg, Lars Pelke, Janika Spannagel (2023). Academic Freedom Index - Update 2023.
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Katrin Kinzelbach, Staffan Lindberg, Lars Pelke, Janika Spannagel (2022). Academic Freedom Index - Update 2022.
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Janika Spannagel (2021). UN Action on Reprisals: Towards Greater Impact.
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Katrin Kinzelbach, Ilyas Saliba, Janika Spannagel, Rob Quinn (2021). Free Universities: Putting the Academic Freedom Index Into Action.
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Janika Spannagel (2018). Chasing Shadows: A Quantitative Analysis of the Scope and Impact of UN Communications on Human Rights Defenders (2000–2016).
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