Nicole Janz is a PhD candidate at the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at Cambridge University. Her research focuses on foreign direct investment (FDI), business responsibility and human rights. She is especially interested in the impact of sectoral FDI on labor rights in the developing world.
Nicole is also a lecturer at the Social Sciences Research Methods Centre, Cambridge, and teaches statistics courses for MPhil and PhD students using the software R.

Publications

Review of A.Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Can globalization promote human rights? The Pennsylvania State University Press 2010. in: Cambridge Review of International Affairs (25: 3, Oct 2012). [pdf]

Zivilreligion "And no one will keep that light from shining". Civil Religion after September 11 in Speeches of George W. Bush. Nicole Janz, LIT-Verlag, 2010.

Menschenrechte Menschenrechte – Globale Dimensionen eines universellen Anspruchs. ed. with Thomas Risse, Nomos Verlag, 2007, 188pp.

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Current Research

  • Impact of multinational corporations and FDI on labor rights
  • Responsibilities of businesses in developing countries
  • Drivers of CSR in developing countries
  • ... more research

News

Nicole blogs about replication and reproducibility in political science. She publishes her own replication data on the IQSS Dataverse Network.

A review of Nicole's book on civil religion by Robert D. Linder just appeared in: Journal of Church and State: 55 (1): 166-168. First published online: January 27, 2013. [pdf]

Nicole Janz
nj248 [at] cam.ac.uk