Domestic politics and international human rights tribunals : the problem of compliance / Courtney Hillebrecht, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hillebrecht, Courtney, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in international and comparative law (Cambridge, England : 1996) ; 104.

Cambridge studies in international and comparative law ; 104

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

European Court of Human Rights.

International human rights courts--Political aspects.

International human rights courts.

International and municipal law--Political aspects.

International and municipal law.

International human rights courts--Europe.

International human rights courts--Latin America.

Latin America.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 186 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Domestic Politics & International Human Rights Tribunals

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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PDF

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.

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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ISBN:

9781139628747

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