This book draws on key theories and methods from the social sciences to develop a framework for the systematic study of human rights problems. It argues that solid empirical analysis of human rights problems rests on examining the observable practices from state and non-state actors that constitute human rights violations to provide plausible explanations for their occurrence and provide deeper understanding of their meaning.
Such explanations and understanding draws on the theoretical insights from rational, structural and cultural approaches in the social sciences. This book...
This book draws on key theories and methods from the social sciences to develop a framework for the systematic study of human rights problems. It a...
The measurement of human rights has long been debated within the various academic disciplines that focus on human rights, as well as within the larger international community of practitioners working in the field of human rights.
Written by leading experts in the field, this is the most up-to-date and comprehensive book on how to measure human rights.
Measuring Human Rights:
draws explicitly on the international law of human rights to derive the content of human rights that ought to be measured
contains a comprehensive...
The measurement of human rights has long been debated within the various academic disciplines that focus on human rights, as well as within the lar...
The measurement of human rights has long been debated within the various academic disciplines that focus on human rights, as well as within the larger international community of practitioners working in the field of human rights.
Written by leading experts in the field, this is the most up-to-date and comprehensive book on how to measure human rights.
Measuring Human Rights:
draws explicitly on the international law of human rights to derive the content of human rights that ought to be measured
contains a comprehensive...
The measurement of human rights has long been debated within the various academic disciplines that focus on human rights, as well as within the lar...
The 20th century has been described as the bloodiest in human history, but it was also the century in which people around the world embraced ideas of democracy and human rights as never before, constructing social, political and legal institutions seeking to contain human behaviour. Todd Landman offers an optimistic, yet cautionary tale of these developments, drawing on the literature, from politics, international relations and international law. He celebrates the global turn from tyranny and violence towards democracy and rights but also warns of the precariousness of these achievements...
The 20th century has been described as the bloodiest in human history, but it was also the century in which people around the world embraced ideas ...
