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Author Hertel, Shareen

Title Human Rights in the United States : Beyond Exceptionalism
Published Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (394 pages)
Contents Cover; Half-title; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Foreword: Are Americans Human? Reflections on the Future of Progressive Politics in the United States; 1 Paradoxes and Possibilities: Domestic Human Rights Policy in Context; Section I: Structuring Debates, Institutionalizing Rights; Section II: Challenging Public/Private Divides; Section III: From the Margins to the Center: Making Harms Visible through Human Rights Framing; Appendix 1: Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Appendix 2: International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Appendix 3: International Covenant on Civil and Political RightsIndex
Summary Brings to light evidence of a shift toward a fuller engagement with international human rights norms and their application to domestic policy dilemmas in the US
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Human rights -- United States
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
Human rights
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Libal, Kathryn
ISBN 9781139083447
1139083449
1283111195
9781283111195
9781139081177
1139081179