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Patchwork compliance: political dialogues about contested human rights
This study presents a political dialogue model to start this process of unraveling. It shows how political decision-makers create patchworks of compliance, as they need to mediate between the mismatching norms of different national and international communities. When successful, such dialogues allow decision-makers to make small improvements in human rights compliance. However, when communities are not sufficiently represented in the dialogue or their norms are being violated, harmful backlash effects against human rights can develop.
This study has a mixed-methods approach. It analyzes the implementation of the Convention on...Show moreThere are very few states in the world, if any, that are in full compliance with human rights norms. Instead, states tend to comply with some articles of a human rights treaty extensively, only up to certain extent with some, and openly violate others. Up to now, we have not been able to unravel these patchworks of compliance.
This study presents a political dialogue model to start this process of unraveling. It shows how political decision-makers create patchworks of compliance, as they need to mediate between the mismatching norms of different national and international communities. When successful, such dialogues allow decision-makers to make small improvements in human rights compliance. However, when communities are not sufficiently represented in the dialogue or their norms are being violated, harmful backlash effects against human rights can develop.
This study has a mixed-methods approach. It analyzes the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in a global quantitative study and two in-depth case studies of Jordan.Show less
- All authors
- Benneker, V.L.
- Supervisor
- Thomas, D.C.
- Co-supervisor
- Hirschmann, G.K.; Van Coppenolie, B.K.S.
- Committee
- Fraser, J.A.; Jetschke, A.; Loenen, M.L.P.; Scholte, J.A.
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- Doctor (dr.)
- Awarding Institution
- Institute of Political Science, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University
- Date
- 2021-07-01
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- Leids Universiteitsfonds; Lutfia Rabbani Foundation