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Political Aid and the Development of Party Politics in Europe : The Case of the UK's Westminster Foundation for Democracy
Kolodny, Robin - 2010
The paper analyzes the work of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) from its founding in 1992 to the present … party systems and transparent, replicable standards for conducting elections. The aid takes the form of sending political … they influence levels of democratization in recipient states. The unidirectional dimension of whether democracy aid works …
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Human Rights, Counterterrorism, and International Cooperation
Hafner-Burton, Emilie Marie - 2011
Abstract will be provided by author.Two big assumptions fuel current mobilization against and policy discussions about the U.S. war on terror and its implications for human rights and international cooperation. First, terrorism creates strong pressures on governments — especially democracies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133282
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U.S. Foreign Policy and Human Rights : Situating Obama
Forsythe, David P. - 2010
It is traditional to theorize about an Administration's foreign policy on human rights in terms of liberalism v. realism, with a dash of constructivism thrown in. This essay charts a different course. It notes three general benchmarks for discussing an Administration and its foreign policy on...
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The Relational Foundation of Emergent Human Rights : From Thomas Hobbes to the Human Right to Water
Hiskes, Richard - 2010
Since Kant the foundation of human rights has been grounded on certain features of individuals that are construed as conferring human dignity, the protection of which is the main justification for and purpose of human rights. Most often those features are subsumed under the general heading of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140408
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Civil Society and the European Court of Human Rights
Cichowski, Rachel - 2010
In the last fifty years, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) incrementally transformed human rights in Europe. The effects and role of states in this transformation is oft debated, problematizing the degree to which national sovereignty is unwillingly diminished or conversely the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140474
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Relativising Human Rights : A New Systems for Country Ranking
Landman, Todd - 2010
This paper proposes a method for ranking country human rights performance that takes into account the performance of countries on a host of variables that are related to the protection of civil and political rights. The method involves two stages. The first stage employs principal component...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140626
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Pushing the Pharaoh to Protect Human Rights : U.S. Democracy Promotion under the Obama Administration
Rieffer-Flanagan, Barbara Ann J. - 2010
development and women's rights - including the right to wear the hijab - Obama also addressed the controversial topic of democracy … necessary for a meaningful democracy:“So no matter where it takes hold, government of the people and by the people sets a single … the legitimate workings of the political process above your party. Without these ingredients, elections alone do not make …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140654
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Isaiah Berlin's Shared Values : A Value Pluralist Perspective on Human Rights
Hanvelt, Marc - 2010
Can a value pluralist maintain a commitment to human rights? In this paper, I argue that they can and, indeed, should do so. Value pluralism requires that we reject the notion that any single value can serve as a foundation for universal human rights. However, it also points us toward what is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140859
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Human Rights in Political Party and Government Programs : Inferences from the Case of Turkey
Arat, Zehra - 2010
Political parties are essential to representative democracies and important in agenda setting and shaping the political discourse, even if they fall short of forming the government or acquiring seats in the parliament. Focusing on the case of Turkey, this paper assesses the extent to which human...
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