Political Repression : : Courts and the Law / / Linda Camp Keith.
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, democrat...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 20 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Empirical Theories and Studies of Political Repression
- 3. The Standard Model of Human Rights
- 4. Political Repression and the Role of the Judiciary
- 5. Constitutional Provisions for Human Rights as Protection Against Political Repression
- 6. Constitutional Protections and Repression When Regimes Are Threatened
- 7. Protecting Human Rights: Conclusions, Implications, and Where We Go from Here
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Acknowledgments