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    • The Inter-American Human Rights System
    Authors: Engstrom, Par;  Advisor: -;  Co-Author: - (2019)

    His current research interests include legal translation and the pre Columbian legal systems of the Americas.
    • The Mass Appeal of Human Rights
    Authors: Pruce, Joel R.;  Advisor: -;  Co-Author: - (2019)

    This book narrates the integration of consumer culture into transnational human rights advocacy and explores its political impact. By examining tactics that include benefit concerts, graphic imagery of suffering, and branded outreach campaigns, the book details the evolution of human rights into a mainstream moral cause. Drawing inspiration from the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, the author argues that these strategies are effective in attracting masses of supporters but weaken the viability of human rights by commodifying its practices. Consumer capitalism co-opts the public’s moral awakening and transforms its desire for global engagement into components of a lifestyle expressed through market transactions and commercial relationships, rather than political commitments. ...
    • The 1991 Child Support Act
    Authors: McCarthy-Cotter, Leanne;  Advisor: -;  Co-Author: - (2019)

    This book assesses the 1991 Child Support Act and demonstrates how its failure was ‘foreseeable’ and ‘foreseen’. It provides an understanding of the creation, and failure, of the Act, as well as providing an examination of the British policy-making process. The book re-introduces the ‘stages approach’ as an appropriate framework for examining policy-making in general, and analysing policy failure in particular. It draws on evidence gained through interviews, official documents, unpublished consultation responses, Parliamentary debates, and materials from pressure groups and think-tanks, as well as academic literature. The 1991 Child Support Act is seen as one of the most controversial and notorious policy failures in Britain. However it has received relatively little academic attent...
    • Debating European Citizenship
    Authors: Bauböck, Rainer;  Advisor: -;  Co-Author: - (2019)

    This open access book covers debates about European citizenship Presents a wide range of views by legal scholars, political scientists, and political practitioners. Organizes debates as conversations whereby authors respond to each other
    • The Laws of Transparency in Action (2019)
    Authors: Dragos, Dacian C.; Kova, Polonca;  Advisor: -;  Co-Author: - (2019)

    This book examines the issue of free access to information as part of the openness and transparency principles. The free access to public information has become one of the most hotly contested aspects of contemporary government and public administration. Many countries in Europe have well-established Freedom of Information laws (FOIAs), while others have adopted them more recently. The problems that occur in the implementation of FOIAs are different due to the legal and institutional context; nevertheless, patterns of best practices and malfunctioning are comparable. The book analyses in comparative and empirical perspective the respective main challenges. Whilst the existing literature focusses on the legal provisions, this book offers practical insights through 13 national profile...
    • The Palgrave Handbook of Womens Political Rights
    Authors: Franceschet, Susan; Krook, Mona Lena; Tan, Netina;  Advisor: -;  Co-Author: - (2019)

    This Palgrave Handbook provides a definitive account of women’s political rights across all major regions of the world, focusing both on women’s right to vote and women’s right to run for political office. This dual focus makes this the first book to combine historical overviews of debates about enfranchising women alongside analyses of more contemporary efforts to increase women’s political representation around the globe. Chapter authors map and assess the impact of these groundbreaking reforms, providing insight into these dynamics in a wide array of countries where women’s suffrage and representation have taken different paths and led to varying degrees of transformation. On the eve of many countries celebrating a century of women’s suffrage, as well as record numbers of women e...