TY - JOUR
T1 - The conditional effects of international human rights institutions
AU - Dai, Xinyuan
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2014/8
Y1 - 2014/8
N2 - Much research on the effects of international human rights institutions (IHRIs) is fixated on whether IHRIs have-"on balance" or "systematically"- generated domestic effect. This essay highlights the path-dependent and conditional nature of domestic effects of IHRIs that the current scholarship has either willfully ignored or proven unable to take seriously. It focuses on causal mechanisms by which IHRIs, as codification of rights and as treaty organizations, impact domestic human rights practice by empowering domestic human rights stakeholders and thereby indirectly influencing states' human rights practice. The essay sheds further light on the conditions under which IHRIs empower domestic stakeholders.
AB - Much research on the effects of international human rights institutions (IHRIs) is fixated on whether IHRIs have-"on balance" or "systematically"- generated domestic effect. This essay highlights the path-dependent and conditional nature of domestic effects of IHRIs that the current scholarship has either willfully ignored or proven unable to take seriously. It focuses on causal mechanisms by which IHRIs, as codification of rights and as treaty organizations, impact domestic human rights practice by empowering domestic human rights stakeholders and thereby indirectly influencing states' human rights practice. The essay sheds further light on the conditions under which IHRIs empower domestic stakeholders.
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U2 - 10.1353/hrq.2014.0034
DO - 10.1353/hrq.2014.0034
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84905645676
VL - 36
SP - 569
EP - 589
JO - Human Rights Quarterly
JF - Human Rights Quarterly
SN - 0275-0392
IS - 3
ER -