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Author Haglund, Jillienne, author.

Title Regional courts, domestic politics, and the struggle for human rights / Jillienne Haglund, University of Kentucky
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 325 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents 1 Introduction -- 2 Explaining regional human rights court deterrence -- 3 Examining patterns of general regional court deterrence -- 4 Does the executive have the capacity to respond to adverse judgments? -- 5 Is the executive willing to respond to adverse judgments? The role of mass public pressure -- 6 Is the executive willing to respond to adverse judgments? The role of elite pressure -- 7 Amplified regional court deterrence: High executive capacity and high executive -- 8 Conclusion
Summary "The international human rights regime has grown substantially over the past several decades. Yet, international human rights law faces significant enforcement challenges coupled with threats to its legitimacy in many parts of the world. As part of the international human rights regime, the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights allow individuals to file formal complaints with an international legal body, making them uniquely designed to ensure rights-related changes. This book focuses on regional human rights court deterrence, or the extent to which adverse judgments discourage the commission of future human rights abuses by instilling fear of the consequences of continued abuse. The central argument of the book is that regional court deterrence is more likely when the chief executive has the capacity and willingness to respond to adverse judgments from regional courts. Jillienne Haglund argues that the executive has greater capacity to respond to adverse judgments when human rights policy changes are relatively feasible and the state is fiscally flexible. Moreover, the executive has incentives to respond to adverse judgments with human rights policy change when the executive faces pressure from the mass public, economic elites, or political elites. This book draws comparisons across regional courts in Europe and the Americas using quantitative data analysis, supplemented with qualitative evidence from many adverse judgments rendered by the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights, to explain the conditions under which adverse regional court judgments deter future human rights abuses"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 17, 2020)
Subject European Court of Human Rights.
Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
SUBJECT European Court of Human Rights fast
Inter-American Court of Human Rights fast
Subject International human rights courts.
International human rights courts -- Europe
International human rights courts -- America
International human rights courts
America
Europe
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019042266
ISBN 9781108776561
1108776566
9781108805896
1108805892