Political repression : courts and the law /
"The world seems to have reached agreement on a set of ideals regarding state human rights behavior and the appropriate institutions to promote and protect those ideals. The global script for state legitimacy calls for a written constitution or the equivalent with an embedded bill of rights, de...
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
c2012
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| Series: | Pennsylvania studies in human rights
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Table of Contents:
- Empirical theories and studies of political repression
- The standard model of human rights
- Political repression and the role of the judiciary
- Constitutional provisions for human rights as protection against political repression
- Constitutional protections and repression when regimes are threatened
- Protecting human rights : conclusions, implications, and where we go from here