Contentious compliance : dissent and repression under international human rights law /
Conrad, Courtenay R.
Contentious compliance : dissent and repression under international human rights law / Courtenay R. Conrad and Emily Hencken Ritter. - xvii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes a bibliography 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 stop governments from repressing their people? Contentious Compliance argues that governments violate rights as part of a conflict with potential or actual dissidents. By introducing dissent to a theory of repression, the book shows when states will violate rights-and when international laws will protect people. Formal theory and data analyses show that when political leaders have the greatest incentives to repress-when they benefit highly from holding power and domestic courts cannot stop them-human rights treaties alter the structure of the conflict bet.
9780190910983 9780190910976
International law and human rights.
Human rights.
Treaties.
Political persecution.
Dissenters--Legal status, laws, etc.
Government, Resistance to.
Protest movements.
Contentious compliance : dissent and repression under international human rights law / Courtenay R. Conrad and Emily Hencken Ritter. - xvii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes a bibliography 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 stop governments from repressing their people? Contentious Compliance argues that governments violate rights as part of a conflict with potential or actual dissidents. By introducing dissent to a theory of repression, the book shows when states will violate rights-and when international laws will protect people. Formal theory and data analyses show that when political leaders have the greatest incentives to repress-when they benefit highly from holding power and domestic courts cannot stop them-human rights treaties alter the structure of the conflict bet.
9780190910983 9780190910976
International law and human rights.
Human rights.
Treaties.
Political persecution.
Dissenters--Legal status, laws, etc.
Government, Resistance to.
Protest movements.