TY  - BOOK
AU  - Conrad,Courtenay R.
AU  - Ritter,Emily Hencken
TI  - Contentious compliance: dissent and repression under international human rights law 
SN  - 9780190910983
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
N1  - 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
N2  - 	
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.
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