Haschke Human Rights Violations in Democratic Regimes

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-66077-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 212 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Human Rights

Violations of the right to the physical integrity of the person, such as torture, cruel and unusual punishment, extra-judicial executions, disappearances, and political imprisonment have long been treated as an anomaly in democratically governed societies. In the current literature on human rights, violations of this right are by and large seen the hall- mark of autocratic and repressive regimes.

This study takes on this dominant paradigm and shows, not only that the common assumption that democratic countries effectively limit human rights abuse is simply wrong, but that its widely accepted theory of what drives human rights violations accounts at best for only a small part of these abuses.Haschke shows that despite the increasing numbers of countries that are democracies, and despite growing number of national signatories to international treaties prohibiting human rights abuse, the numbers of allegations has not declined and the bulk of abuse, which takes the form of torture and ill-treatment, extra-judicial killings, rape, and the like, is committed against marginal members of society, seems to reflect environments that enable agents of the state to abuse those with whom they are in contact, and is found in democracies and dictatorships alike.

This work will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, human rights and comparative politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Haschke, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 The Not-So-Peaceful Domestic Democratic Peace

Chapters 2-3 The Rationalist-Structuralist Paradigm

Chapters 4-5 The Logic of Abuse

Chapter 6-7 Pacifying Principals, Pacifying Agents

Chapter 8 (Re)considering the Domestic Peace

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Haschke is Assistant Professor, Political Science at University of North Carolina at Asheville, USA