Political Rights

Author : Alex Conte,Richard Burchill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317153610

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Defining Civil and Political Rights by Alex Conte,Richard Burchill Pdf

Defining Civil and Political Rights provides a comprehensive analysis and commentary on the decisions - technically known as views - of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, for use by human rights lawyers throughout the world. Each of the substantive rights and freedoms set out in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights is considered in detail, by analysis of final reviews and comments of the Human Rights Committee. This second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to take account of recent jurisprudence on the Human Rights Committee. New material has been added based upon substantive areas of the committee's jurisprudence.

Author : Stuart A. Scheingold
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472025534

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The Politics of Rights by Stuart A. Scheingold Pdf

Stuart A. Scheingold's landmark work introduced a new understanding of the contribution of rights to progressive social movements, and thirty years later it still stands as a pioneering and provocative work, bridging political science and sociolegal studies. In the preface to this new edition, the author provides a cogent analysis of the burgeoning scholarship that has been built on the foundations laid in his original volume. A new foreword from Malcolm Feeley of Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law traces the intellectual roots of The Politics of Rights to the classic texts of social theory and sociolegal studies. "Scheingold presents a clear, thoughtful discussion of the ways in which rights can both empower and constrain those seeking change in American society. While much of the writing on rights is abstract and obscure, The Politics of Rights stands out as an accessible and engaging discussion." -Gerald N. Rosenberg, University of Chicago "This book has already exerted an enormous influence on two generations of scholars. It has had an enormous influence on political scientists, sociologists, and anthropologists, as well as historians and legal scholars. With this new edition, this influence is likely to continue for still more generations. The Politics of Rights has, I believe, become an American classic." -Malcolm Feeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, from the foreword Stuart A. Scheingold is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Washington.

Author : Ben Golder
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804796514

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Foucault and the Politics of Rights by Ben Golder Pdf

This book focuses on Michel Foucault's late work on rights in order to address broader questions about the politics of rights in the contemporary era. As several commentators have observed, something quite remarkable happens in this late work. In his early career, Foucault had been a great critic of the liberal discourse of rights. Suddenly, from about 1976 onward, he makes increasing appeals to rights in his philosophical writings, political statements, interviews, and journalism. He not only defends their importance; he argues for rights new and as-yet-unrecognized. Does Foucault simply revise his former positions and endorse a liberal politics of rights? Ben Golder proposes an answer to this puzzle, which is that Foucault approaches rights in a spirit of creative and critical appropriation. He uses rights strategically for a range of political purposes that cannot be reduced to a simple endorsement of political liberalism. Golder develops this interpretation of Foucault's work while analyzing its shortcomings and relating it to the approaches taken by a series of current thinkers also engaged in considering the place of rights in contemporary politics, including Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, and Jacques Rancière.

Author : Susan Franceschet,Mona Lena Krook,Netina Tan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 751 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137590749

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The Palgrave Handbook of Women’s Political Rights by Susan Franceschet,Mona Lena Krook,Netina Tan Pdf

This Palgrave Handbook provides a definitive account of women’s political rights across all major regions of the world, focusing both on women’s right to vote and women’s right to run for political office. This dual focus makes this the first book to combine historical overviews of debates about enfranchising women alongside analyses of more contemporary efforts to increase women’s political representation around the globe. Chapter authors map and assess the impact of these groundbreaking reforms, providing insight into these dynamics in a wide array of countries where women’s suffrage and representation have taken different paths and led to varying degrees of transformation. On the eve of many countries celebrating a century of women’s suffrage, as well as record numbers of women elected and appointed to political office, this timely volume offers an important introduction to ongoing developments related to women’s political empowerment worldwide. It will be of interest to students and scholars across the fields of gender and politics, women’s studies, history and sociology.

Author : Paul M. Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 110849885X

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A Commentary on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by Paul M. Taylor Pdf

A new and an essential reference work for any international human rights law academic, student or practitioner, A Commentary on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights spans all substantive rights of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), as approached from the perspective of the ICCPR as an integrated, coherent scheme of rights protection. In detailed coverage of the Human Rights Committee's output when monitoring ICCPR compliance, Paul M. Taylor offers extraordinary access to forty years of its concluding observations, views and general comments organised thematically. This Commentary is a solid and practical introduction to any and all of the civil and political rights in the ICCPR, and a rare resource explaining the requirements for domestic implementation of ICCPR standards. An indispensable research tool for any serious enquirer into the subject, the Commentary speaks to the accomplishments of the ICCPR in striving for universal human rights standards.

Author : José Julián López
Publisher : Springer
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319742748

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Human Rights as Political Imaginary by José Julián López Pdf

In this book, López proposes the ‘political imaginary’ model as a tool to better understand what human rights are in practice, and what they might, or might not, be able to achieve. Human rights are conceptualised as assemblages of relatively stable, but not unchanging, historically situated, and socially embedded practices. Drawing on an emerging iconoclastic historiography of human rights, the author provides a sympathetic yet critical overview of the field of the sociology of human rights. The book addresses debates regarding sociology’s relationships to human rights, the strengths and limits of the notion of practice, human rights’ affinity to postnational citizenship and cosmopolitism, and human rights’ curious, yet fateful, entanglement with the law. Human Rights as Political Imaginary will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including sociology, politics, international relations and criminology.

Author : Christopher Cochrane
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773545793

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Left and Right by Christopher Cochrane Pdf

How left/right ideology has evolved in the postwar era and changed Canadian politics.

Author : Sarah Joseph,Melissa Castan
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1042 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191650222

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The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by Sarah Joseph,Melissa Castan Pdf

Now in its third edition, this book is the authoritative text on one of the world's most important human rights treaties, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The Covenant is of universal relevance. Adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1966 and in force from 1976, it commits the signatories and parties to respect the civil and political freedoms and rights of individuals. Monitored by the UN Human Rights Committee, the Covenant ratified by the majority of UN member states. The book meticulously extracts and analyzes the jurisprudence over nearly forty years of the UN Human Rights Committee, on each of the various ICCPR rights, including the right to life, the right to freedom from torture, the right of freedom of religion, the right of freedom of expression, and the right to privacy, as well as admissibility criteria under the First Optional Protocol. Key miscellaneous issues, such as reservations, derogations, and denunciations, are also thoroughly assessed. Comprehensively indexed and cross-referenced, this book offers elegant and straight-forward access to the jurisprudence of the Human Rights Committee and other UN human rights treaty bodies. Presented in a clear and illuminating manner, it will be of use to the judiciary, human rights practitioners, human rights activists, government institutions, academics, and students alike.

Author : Dana Schmalz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000175783

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Refugees, Democracy and the Law by Dana Schmalz Pdf

The book provides an in-depth discussion of democratic theory questions in relation to refugee law. The work introduces readers to the evolution of refugee law and its core issues today, as well as central lines in the debate about democracy and migration. Bringing together these fields, the book links theoretical considerations and legal analysis. Based on its specific understanding of the refugee concept, it offers a reconstruction of refugee law as constantly confronted with the question of how to secure rights to those who have no voice in the democratic process. In this reconstruction, the book highlights, on the one hand, the need to look beyond the legal regulations for understanding the challenges and gaps in refugee protection. It is also the structural lack of political voice, the book argues, which shapes the refugee’s situation. On the other hand, the book opposes a view of law as mere expression of power and points out the dynamics within the law which reflect endeavors towards mitigating exclusion. The book will be essential reading for academics and researchers working in the areas of migration and refugee law, legal theory and political theory.

Author : Alasdair Cochrane
Publisher : Polity
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1509530061

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Should Animals Have Political Rights? by Alasdair Cochrane Pdf

All political communities must make decisions about how to regulate the treatment of animals. Most states currently protect animals through outlawing the infliction of ‘unnecessary suffering’. But do animals’ rights end there? In this book, Alasdair Cochrane argues that states must go much further. Animals have rights to be protected not only from the cruelty of individuals, but also from those structures and institutions which routinely (and, in some cases, necessarily) cause them harm, such as industrialised animal agriculture. But even that isn’t adequate. In order to ensure that their interests are taken seriously, it is imperative that we represent their interests throughout the political process – they require not only rights to protection, but also to democratic membership. Cochrane’s important intervention in this controversial debate will be essential reading for anyone interested in the intersection of political theory and animal rights.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : OCLC:467193920

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paul M. Sniderman,Joseph F. Fletcher,Philip E. Tetlock,Peter H. Russell
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300069812

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The Clash of Rights by Paul M. Sniderman,Joseph F. Fletcher,Philip E. Tetlock,Peter H. Russell Pdf

Why do citizens in pluralist democracies disagree collectively about the very values they agree on individually? This provocative book highlights the inescapable conflicts of rights and values at the heart of democratic politics. Based on interviews with thousands of citizens and political decision makers, the book focuses on modern Canadian politics, investigating why a country so fortunate in its history and circumstances is on the brink of dissolution. Taking advantage of new techniques of computer-assisted interviewing, the authors explore the politics of a wide array of issues, from freedom of expression to public funding of religious schools to government wiretapping to antihate legislation, analyzing not only why citizens take the positions they do but also how easily they can be talked out of them. In the process, the authors challenge a number of commonly held assumptions about democratic politics. They show, for example, that political elites do not constitute a special bulwark protecting civil liberties; that arguments over political rights are as deeply driven by commitment to the master values of democratic politics as by failure to understand them; and that consensus on the rights of groups is inherently more fragile than on the rights of individuals.

Author : Steven L. B. Jensen,Charles Walton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316519233

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Social Rights and the Politics of Obligation in History by Steven L. B. Jensen,Charles Walton Pdf

A pioneering study in the history of social rights, filling a significant gap in human rights scholarship and practice.

Author : Sue Donaldson,Will Kymlicka
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780199599660

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Zoopolis by Sue Donaldson,Will Kymlicka Pdf

To all of these animals we owe respect for their basic inviolable rights.

Author : Scott Carlson,Gregory Gisvold
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004502383

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Practical Guide to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by Scott Carlson,Gregory Gisvold Pdf

This Guide to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) condenses the guidance of the Human Rights Committee and accompanying legal scholarship into an easily accessible reference handbook for understanding the nature and scope of rights set forth in the ICCPR. The ICCPR offers the most widely accepted definition of civil and political rights at the international level, and as such this practical guide serves as an indispensable tool for legal practitioners and others who are dedicated to the promotion and protection of civil and political rights throughout the globe. It is also a useful source of information for introductory courses in international human rights law. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.