Domestic politics and international human rights tribunals : the problem of compliance /

International politics has become increasingly legalized over the past fifty years, restructuring the way states interact with each other, international institutions, and their own constituents. The international legalization of human rights now makes it possible for individuals to take human rights...

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Main Author: Hillebrecht, Courtney (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Series:Cambridge studies in international and comparative law (Cambridge, England : 1996) ; 104.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Human rights tribunals and the challenge of compliance
  • Explaining compliance with human rights tribunals
  • Domestic institutions and patterns of compliance
  • Compliance as a signal of states' human rights commitments : Uribe's Columbia
  • Leveraging international law's legitimacy to change policies : compliance and domestic policy promotion in Argentina and Portugal
  • The bitter pill of compliance : preferences for human rights, democracy, and the rule of law
  • Compliance failures : Russia, Italy and Brazil and the politics of non-compliance
  • Conclusion : the European and Inter-American courts in context.