عنوان

Global Institutionalization of Human Rights: The Effects of State Institutions and Domestic Politics

کد کشور

IR

شماره

416T

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

کشور محل نشر

IR

عنوان اصلي

Global Institutionalization of Human Rights: The Effects of State Institutions and Domestic Politics

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام ساير پديدآوران

;supervisor: Beckfield, Jason, Marsden, Peter V.

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Harvard University: United States -- Massachusetts

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

: 2011

نام خاص و کميت اثر

239 pages

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

, Harvard University: United States -- Massachusetts

متن يادداشت

This dissertation investigates the causes and mechanisms driving the global institutionalization of human rights since the end of World War II. This project studies two indispensable components of this institutionalization, the intergovernmental treaty system and the non-governmental organization (NGO) field. I address two central questions: how human rights are institutionalized into an international regime, and why this institutionalization process occurs unevenly across the world. This study develops a state-oriented theoretical approach which emphasizes the role of the state, and employs various statistical tools to test this approach. I argue that the institutional composition of the state and domestic politics are key to understanding the institutionalization process and its unequal nature.Specific findings can be summarized as follows. (1) The establishment of the human rights treaty system is mainly driven by states undergoing democratization through the "commitment" and "concession" mechanisms within domestic politics that intensify states' tendency to support global legalization of human rights. Through treaty ratification, these democratizing states forestall future repression, make necessary critical concessions to newly empowered political groups, lock in positive institutional changes achieved in democratization, and render their commitments to continuing democratization more credible to the domestic audience. (2) Cross-national inequality in participation in human rights NGOs is best explained by two intertwined dimensions within the state, democracy and state capacity. Civic participation in human rights NGOs is mostly supported by strong democratic states and tolerated by weak states, while strong authoritarian states have both the motive and capacity to restrain their citizens' participation. (3) Cross-national inequality in creation of human rights NGOs can be attributed to inequality in domestic (economic, human, and political) resources, world polity connections, and American exceptionalism. Notably, a well-established democracy with a strong democratic tradition provides favorable environment for human rights association activities.Overall, this dissertation explains the global institutionalization of human rights from a state-oriented perspective, and has broad implications for theories of institutionalization of global norms, for the debate on the role of the state in the world polity, and for effective promotion of human rights in countries with differing state regimes and political institutions.

موضوع مستند نشده

Political science

موضوع مستند نشده

Social structure

اصطلاح موضوعی

Globalization

اصطلاح موضوعی

The state

اصطلاح موضوعی

Human rights

اصطلاح موضوعی

Civil society

اصطلاح موضوعی

NGO

اصطلاح موضوعی

Non-governmental organization

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Zhou, Min

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Beckfield, Jason, Marsden, Peter V., supervisor

کشور

ایران

تاريخ و ساعت مذاکره و دسترسي

TL195.pdf

وضعیت فهرست نویسی

old catalog

نوع ماده

TL

کد کاربرگه

254359

پیشوند ISBD اعمال شده است

1

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y'