Human rights, state compliance, and social change : assessing national human rights institutions /

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Imprint:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 351 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language:	English
Subject:	National human rights institutions. Human rights. International law.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12598426

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Varying Form of Title:	Human Rights, State Compliance, & Social Change
Other authors / contributors:	Goodman, Ryan, editor. Pegram, Thomas Innes, 1980- editor.
ISBN:	9781139019408 (ebook) 9780521761758 (hardback) 9780521150170 (paperback)
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Summary:	National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) - human rights commissions and ombudsmen - have gained recognition as a possible missing link in the transmission and implementation of international human rights norms at the domestic level. They are also increasingly accepted as important participants in global and regional forums where international norms are produced. By collecting innovative work from experts spanning international law, political science, sociology and human rights practice, this book critically examines the significance of this relatively new class of organizations. It focuses, in particular, on the prospects of these institutions to effectuate state compliance and social change. Consideration is given to the role of NHRIs in delegitimizing - though sometimes legitimizing - governments' poor human rights records and in mobilizing - though sometimes demobilizing - civil society actors. The volume underscores the broader implications of such cross-cutting research for scholarship and practice in the fields of human rights and global affairs in general.
Other form:	Print version: 9780521761758

Table of Contents:

1. National human rights institutions, state compliance, and social change
Part I. NHRIs in Theory and Reality
2. National human rights institutions and state compliance
3. The shifting boundaries of NHRI definition in the international system
4. Evaluating NHRIs: considering structure, mandate, and impact
Part II. NHRI Performance: Global, Regional, and National Domains
5. National human rights institutions and the international human rights system
6. National human rights institutions in anglophone Africa: legalism, popular agency, and the 'voices of suffering'
7. National human rights institutions in the Asia Pacific region: change agents under conditions of uncertainty
8. National human rights institutions in Central and Eastern Europe: the ombudsman as agent of international law
9. National human rights institutions in Latin America: politics and institutionalization
Part III. NHRIs and Compliance: Beyond Enforcement
10. The societalization of horizontal accountability: rights advocacy and the defensor del pueblo de la nación in Argentina
11. Through pressure or persuasion?: Explaining compliance with the resolutions of the Bolivian defensor del pueblo
Part IV. Final Reflections
12. Tainted origins and uncertain outcomes: evaluating NHRIs
13. National human rights institutions, opportunities, and activism

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