Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9780521849210 |
| ISBN10: | 0521849217 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 256 pages |
| Size: | 235x160x19 mm |
| Weight: | 520 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 13 b/w illus. 2 maps 4 tables |
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Category:
The Politics of Human Rights
The Quest for Dignity
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication: 14 October 2010
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Short description:
Introduces a wider perspective to the study of human rights and human rights violations by focusing on empirical material.
Long description:
Human rights is an important issue in contemporary politics, and the last few decades have also seen a remarkable increase in research and teaching on the subject. This book introduces students to the study of human rights and aims to build on their interest while simultaneously offering an alternative vision of the subject. Many texts focus on the theoretical and legal issues surrounding human rights. This book adopts a substantially different approach which uses empirical data derived from research on human rights by political scientists to illustrate the occurrence of different types of human rights violations across the world. The authors devote attention to rights as well as to responsibilities, neither of which stops at one country's political borders. They also explore how to deal with repression and the aftermath of human rights violations, making students aware of the prospects for and realities of progress.
'This is the first true human rights textbook. It is comprehensive, has a consistent voice, and introduces students to quantitative approaches to the global, comparative study of human rights. Chapters conclude with suggestions for further reading, relevant websites and films - all with valuable annotations by the authors.' David Cingranelli, Binghamton University, SUNY
'This is the first true human rights textbook. It is comprehensive, has a consistent voice, and introduces students to quantitative approaches to the global, comparative study of human rights. Chapters conclude with suggestions for further reading, relevant websites and films - all with valuable annotations by the authors.' David Cingranelli, Binghamton University, SUNY
Table of Contents:
Introduction; Part I. Human Rights and State Responsibilities: 1. The concept of human rights; 2. State responsibilities; 3. Rights with responsibilities; Part II. Empirical Representations and Explanations of Human Rights Violations: 4. Where are human rights violated?; 5. Why are human rights violated? An examination of personal integrity rights; Part III. Intervening and Rebuilding in the Wake of Repression: 6. Intervening to protect human rights; 7. Rebuilding society in the aftermath of repression; 8. Toward the future.
