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

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Author / Creator:	Hillebrecht, Courtney, author.
Imprint:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 186 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge studies in international and comparative law ; 104 Cambridge studies in international and comparative law (Cambridge, England : 1996) ; 104.
Subject:	Inter-American Court of Human Rights. European Court of Human Rights. International human rights courts -- Political aspects. International and municipal law -- Political aspects. International human rights courts -- Europe. International human rights courts -- Latin America.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12597419

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Varying Form of Title:	Domestic Politics & International Human Rights Tribunals
ISBN:	9781139628747 (ebook) 9781107040229 (hardback) 9781107595774 (paperback)
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Summary:	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 claims against their governments at international courts such as the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights. This book brings together theories from international law, human rights and international relations to explain the increasingly important phenomenon of states' compliance with human rights tribunals' rulings. It argues that this is an inherently domestic affair. It posits three overarching questions: why do states comply with human rights tribunals' rulings? How does the compliance process unfold and what are the domestic political considerations around compliance? What effect does compliance have on the protection of human rights? The book answers these through a combination of quantitative analyses and in-depth case studies from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Italy, Portugal, Russia and the United Kingdom.
Other form:	Print version: 9781107040229

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.

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