Chains of Justice - The Global Rise of State Institutions for Human Rights

Sonia Cardenas is Associate Academic Dean and Professor of Political Science at Trinity College and author of Human Rights in Latin America: A Politics of Terror and Hope and Conflict and Compliance: State Responses to International Human Rights Pressure, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

List of contents

Chapter 1. The Self-Restraining State?

Chapter 2. Historical Linkages

Chapter 3. Tracking Global Diffusion

Chapter 4. The Logic of Strategic Emulation

Chapter 5. Trendsetters and Early Adopters, pre-1990

Chapter 6. Democratization Scripts and Bandwagoning in Africa

Chapter 7. Transitional Myths and Everyday Politics in the Americas

Chapter 8. Appeasement via Localization in the Asia Pacific

Chapter 9. Membership Rites and Statehood in the New Europe

Chapter 10. How Accountability Institutions Matter

Chapter 11. Adaptive States: Making and Breaking International Law

Notes

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

Sonia Cardenas is Professor of Political Science and Vice President for Academic Affairs/Dean of the Faculty at Trinity College.

Summary

Sonia Cardenas offers the most comprehensive account to date of the emergence of national human rights institutions, exploring why states create these institutions and examining their impact on contemporary human rights struggles.

Product details

• Authors: Sonia Cardenas
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.04.2014
• EAN: 9780812245394
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4539-4
• No. of pages: 496
• Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights; Pennsylvania Studies in Human; Pennsylvania Studies in Human; Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education