Contentious compliance : dissent and repression under international human rights law / Courtenay R. Conrad (Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, Merced), Emily Hencken Ritter (Associate Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University)

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]

xvii, 254 pages, 1 unnumbered plate : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm

"Do international human rights treaties constrain governments from repressing their populations and violating rights? [The authors] present a new theory of human rights treaty effects founded on the idea that governments repress as part of a domestic conflict with potential or actual dissidents. By introducing dissent like peaceful protests, strikes, boycotts, or direct violent attacks on government, their theory improves understanding of when states will violate rights-and when international laws will work to protect people. [The authors] investigate the effect of international human rights treaties on domestic conflict and ultimately find that treaties improve human rights outcomes by altering the structure of conflict between political authorities and potential dissidents. A powerful, careful, and empirically sophisticated rejoinder to the critics of international human rights law, [this book] offers new insights and analyses that will reshape our thinking on law and political violence."-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-250) and index.

KZ1266 .C663 2019

English

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