Protecting Human Rights
 248 pp., 5.5 x 8.5 Hardcover ISBN: 9781589010642 (1589010647) 248 pp., 5.5 x 8.5 Paperback ISBN: 9781589010635 (1589010639) October 2005 LC: 2005008368 Advancing Human Rights series EXPLORE THIS TITLE DescriptionTable of Contents Reviews |
Protecting Human Rights
A Comparative Study
Ours has been called a global "age of rights," an era in which respect for human rights is considered the highest aspiration of the international democratic community. Since the United Nation's 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a wide variety of protections—civil, political, economic, social, and cultural—have been given legal validation as countries ratify treaties, participate in intergovernmental organizations, and establish human rights tribunals and truth and reconciliation commissions. Todd Landman is a senior lecturer in the department of government and member of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex. He is the author of Issues and Methods in Comparative Politics and coauthor of Governing Latin America and Citizenship Rights and Social Movements. Sumner B. Twiss, John Kelsay, and Terry Coonan, Series Editors
Reviews
"It is hard to imagine a more rigorous, systematic examination of the growth of the international human rights regime and its effect on human rights practice than Todd Landman's Protecting Human Rights."—International Studies Review "An important and truly interdisciplinary work that will interest—and challenge—scholars and practitioners from various fields."—Political Studies Review "Protecting Human Rights is a very impressive study that makes an important contribution to our understanding of human rights protection."—International Affairs "Todd Landman's book represents an important contribution to human rights research. It is the result of recent, and in some cases pioneering research, specifically with regard to the development of more robust empirical measures. Human rights specialists as well as political scientists whose research agenda includes human rights will welcome its publication."—Mark Ensalaco, director, international studies and human rights studies programs, University of Dayton "In this important book, Todd Landman offers a rigorous model for measuring the growth and impact of the international human rights regime. In the process, he makes a powerful argument for viewing human rights as an ally of international and national security and a friend of democracy. This is a welcome conclusion at a time when the value of core human rights norms, like freedom from torture, is being questioned."—Iain Guest, professorial lecturer in human rights, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University and founder of the Advocacy Project "A sophisticated study of the question of whether the growth in the breadth and depth of the international human rights regime has had the effect of improving government respect for a wide variety of human rights. This is the most methodologically sophisticated study of this question that I have seen, and it is the only one that finds that a state's formal participation in a human rights regime improves its human rights practices, even when controlling for other plausible explanations of variations in those practices. Specialists in the fields of human rights, international law, and comparative politics will welcome this book and it will be widely cited by scholars."—David Cingranelli, professor of political science, State University of New York-Binghamton Table of Contents 1: Norms and Rights at the Turn of the Century 2: Empirical Theories and Human Rights 3: Data and Methods 4: The International Human Rights Regime 5: Global Variation in Human Rights Protection 6: Modeling Human Rights Protection 7: Protecting Human Rights Appendix A: Coding Reservations Appendix B: IGOs and INGOs Notes Bibliography Index |
