Janika Spannagel

Janika Spannagel is a research associate at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin, where she explores quantitative methods in human rights research on political imprisonment. She is pursuing a PhD on the international protection of human rights defenders at the University of Freiburg.

Better data can counteract soft repression

By: Katrin Kinzelbach & Janika Spannagel
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Changing the way we document human rights abuses—such as paying more attention to soft repression—could correct our understanding of what is really happening.