TY  - BOOK
AU  - Conrad,Courtenay R.
AU  - Ritter,Emily Hencken
TI  - Contentious compliance: Dissent and repression under international human rights law 
SN  - 9780190910983
AV  - KZ1266 .C66 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Oxford,  (New York)
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - International law and human rights
KW  - Human rights
KW  - Treaties
KW  - Political persecution
KW  - Dissenters
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - Government, Resistance to
KW  - Protest movements
KW  - Human Rights
KW  - Droit international et droits de l'homme
KW  - Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
KW  - Trait�es
KW  - R�epression politique
KW  - R�esistance au gouvernement
KW  - Contestation
KW  - treaties
KW  - aat
KW  - fast
N1  - 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; Specialized
N2  - 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
UR  - https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190910976.001.0001
ER  -