dissent and repression under international human rights law /
First Statement of Responsibility
Courtenay R. Conrad (Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, Merced), Emily Hencken Ritter (Associate Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-250) and index.
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Do human rights treaties protect rights? -- A model of conflict and constraint -- Empirical implications of treaty effects on conflict -- Analyzing the effect of treaties on repression & dissent -- Substantive empirical results : government repression -- Substantive empirical results : mobilized dissent -- Conclusion : human rights treaties (sometimes) protect rights.
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"Do international human rights treaties constrain governments from repressing their populations and violating rights? [The authors] present a new theory of human rights treaty effects founded on the idea that governments repress as part of a domestic conflict with potential or actual dissidents. By introducing dissent like peaceful protests, strikes, boycotts, or direct violent attacks on government, their theory improves understanding of when states will violate rights-and when international laws will work to protect people. [The authors] investigate the effect of international human rights treaties on domestic conflict and ultimately find that treaties improve human rights outcomes by altering the structure of conflict between political authorities and potential dissidents. A powerful, careful, and empirically sophisticated rejoinder to the critics of international human rights law, [this book] offers new insights and analyses that will reshape our thinking on law and political violence."--