'The Power of Human Rights'(published in 1999) was an innovative and influential
contribution to the study of international human rights. At its center was a'spiral model'of …

Why do we compare nations? How do we compare nations? What are the'big issues' in
comparative politics? Issues and Methods in Comparative Politics provides students with the …

This book draws on key theories and methods from the social sciences to develop a
framework for the systematic study of human rights problems. It argues that solid empirical …

Does the implementation of a World Bank structural adjustment agreement (SAA) increase
or decrease government respect for human rights? Neoliberal theory suggests that SAAs …

Human rights have long been a direct or indirect substantive topic in modern political
science and, in particular, the study of human rights represents an important nexus between …

This article tests the empirical relationship between inequality and the protection of personal
integrity rights using a cross-national time-series data set for 162 countries for the years …

Liberals argue that globalization, or growing interdependence among states, will transform
societies towards more liberal values reflected in better respect for human rights. Skeptics of …

Human rights defenders have received renewed attention in the current period owing to new
institutional and normative developments at the international level and renewed targeting by …

Some report that human rights are likely to be violated when poor countries sign up to
structural adjustment programmes (SAPs). These violations apparently occur because …

Employing data for 125 countries and spanning the 1990–2014 period, we empirically
examine the impact of human rights on income distribution and poverty. We also investigate …