Judith Kelley, Ph.D.

jkelley@duke.edu

Duke University

Country: United States (North Carolina)

About Me:

My profile can be found here: https://sanford.duke.edu/people/faculty/kelley-judith                                          Judith Kelley is the Terry Sanford Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Political Science and the Dean at the Duke Sanford School of Public Policy. She is also a senior fellow with the Kenan Institute for Ethics. In 2009-2010 she was a visiting fellow at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. Her publications reflect her research interests in the role of international actors in promoting political and human rights reforms. In 2012, she was inducted into the Bass Society of Fellows at Duke, which recognizes faculty for excellence in both teaching and scholarship. Kelley has also been awarded the Sanford School’s Susan E. Tifft Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring Award, and she was the 2016 inaugural recipient of the Brownell-Whetten Award for Diversity and Inclusion. The Smith Richardson Foundation has supported her as a Policy and Strategy Fellow. She also was elected Chair of the Editorial Board of International Organization. Kelley's work focuses on how states, international organizations and NGOs can promote domestic political reforms in problem states, and how international norms, laws and other governance tools influence state behavior. Substantively, her work addresses human rights and democracy, international election observation, and human trafficking. Past work has focused on the International Criminal Court, the European Union and other international organizations. Details on her election monitoring project are on the web at Project on International Election Monitoring. Her newest work focuses on the global fight against human trafficking. She is leading a major research project to study the effectiveness of the diplomacy of the United States on human trafficking. She is the PI on a grant from the National Science Foundation for this project. Her work has been published by Princeton University Press, Cambridge University Press, and in journals such as the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, and the Journal of Common Market Studies. Her book, Monitoring Democracy: When International Election Observation Works and Why It Often Fails (Princeton 2012) was "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013" and also received the Chadwick F. Alger Prize, which is awarded by the International Studies Association to recognize the "best book published in the previous calendar year on the subject of international organization and multilateralism." Her newest book is on human trafficking and the rising phenomenon of global ratings and rankings. "Scorecard Diplomacy: Grading states to influence their reputation and behavior," is published with Cambridge University Press, 2017. More about the book can be found at www.scorecarddiplomacy.org.

Research Interests

International Law & Organization

Foreign Aid

Human Rights

Public Policy

Comparative Democratization

Elections, Election Administration, and Voting Behavior

Ratings And Rankings

Human Trafficking Policy

Election Monitoring

Election Observation

Global Performance Indicators

Global Governance