The liberal concept of rights or the idea of human rights it has fathered, has been widely believed to provide a viable language for articulating visions of political change vis-?-vis democratization in developing countries. While students of politics realize that cultural constraints need to be considered in designing models of political change, they have paid relatively little attention to the important need for re-describing the liberal concept of rights in a way that is sensitive to the cultural particularity of liberalism. The result is a growing inability to explain why there continues...
The liberal concept of rights or the idea of human rights it has fathered, has been widely believed to provide a viable language for articulating visi...
This study argues that the liberal concept of rights presupposes and is grounded in an individualistic culture or shared way of relating, and this particular shared way of relating emerged only in the wake of the Reformation in the modern West.
This study argues that the liberal concept of rights presupposes and is grounded in an individualistic culture or shared way of relating, and this par...
