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Complying with Human Rights

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  • Simon Hug
  • Simone Wegmann

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The empirical assessment of how signatories of human rights conventions comply with their obligations has, so far, yielded conflicting results, especially regarding the compliance mechanisms that are the most promising to ensure improving human rights records. We argue that this is due to the fact that differences in compliance systems have been neglected and that different compliance mechanisms have been assessed in isolation, without considering possible interactions. To analyze this argument, we propose a novel way to assess the effect of these mechanisms by relying on a Markov-transition model. Our results show that human rights violations are time dependent and that the effect of independent variables is conditional on previous human rights violations as well as on the strength of human rights compliance systems.

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  • Simon Hug & Simone Wegmann, 2016. "Complying with Human Rights," International Interactions, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 42(4), pages 590-615, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ginixx:v:42:y:2016:i:4:p:590-615
    DOI: 10.1080/03050629.2016.1185712
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