Contentious compliance: Dissent and repression under international human rights law
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TextPublication details: Oxford, (New York): Oxford University Press; 2019Description: xvii, 254 p.: ill. (black and white)ISBN: - 9780190910983
- 9780190910976
- International law and human rights
- Human rights
- Treaties
- Political persecution
- Dissenters -- Legal status, laws, etc
- Government, Resistance to
- Protest movements
- Human Rights
- Droit international et droits de l'homme
- Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
- Trait�es
- R�epression politique
- R�esistance au gouvernement
- Contestation
- treaties
- Dissenters -- Legal status, laws, etc
- Government, Resistance to
- Human rights
- International law and human rights
- Political persecution
- Protest movements
- Treaties
- KZ1266 .C66 2019
Previously issued in print: 2019.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Do human rights treaties protect rights? -- A model of conflict and constraint -- Empirical implications of treaty effects on conflict -- Using data to determine the effect of treaties on repression & dissent -- Substantive empirical results : government repression -- Substantive empirical results : mobilized dissent -- Conclusion : human rights treaties (sometimes) protect rights.
Do international human rights treaties constrain governments from repressing their populations? Government authorities routinely ignore their international obligations, and countries with poor human rights records join international treaties and yet continue to violate rights. Contentious Compliance presents a new theory of treaty effects founded on the idea that governments repress as part of a domestic conflict with potential or actual dissidents.
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