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ID134397
Title ProperSocial science of human rights
Other Title Information the need for a ‘second image reversed’?
LanguageENG
AuthorRegilme Jr, Salvador Santino
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What are the causes of state-initiated human rights violations? Are intra-national factors alone causally responsible for the emergence of human rights crises in the developing world? This article critically examines contemporary social science literature on the causes of human rights compliance and violations, particularly in the fields of international relations and comparative politics. It underscores the finding that the current research agenda on human rights has yet to fully recognise the causal and constitutive links between transnational and domestic factors in generating variations in states’ level of compliance. The main goal of the paper is to analytically explore the possibilities of generating social scientific research that recognises the interactive causal dynamics among extra-national and domestic variables as they jointly produce cross-national variations in the quality of a state’s compliance with human rights norms. Based on a critical analysis of the current scholarship in human rights research, the paper offers several pathways the academy must traverse in order to enhance our understanding of the causal underpinnings of human rights violations in the global South.
`In' analytical NoteThird World Quarterly vol. 35, No.8; 2014: p.1390-1405
Journal SourceThird World Quarterly Vol: 35 No 8
Key WordsHuman Rights ;  Globalization ;  Comparative politics ;  Foreign Policy Analysis ;  International Relations - Case Studies ;  Global South ;  Social Science Literature ;  Transnational and Domestic Factor


 
 
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