Shareen Hertel

Economic Rights (eBook, PDF)

Conceptual, Measurement, and Policy Issues

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Produktbeschreibung

This edited volume offers scholarship on economic rights by leading scholars in the fields of economics, law, and political science. It analyzes the central features of economic rights: their conceptual, measurement, and policy dimensions. In its introduction, the book provides a conceptualization of economic rights based on a three-pronged definition: the right to a decent standard of living, the right to work, and the right to basic income support for people who cannot work. Subsequent chapters correct existing conceptual mistakes in the literature, provide new measurement techniques with country rankings, and analyze policy implementation at the international, regional, national, and local levels. While it forms a cohesive whole, the book is nevertheless rich in contending perspectives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511332319
• Artikelnr.: 38197807

Autorenporträt

Shareen Hertel is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut and holds a joint appointment with the university's Human Rights Institute. She has served as a consultant to foundations, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and United Nations agencies in the United States, Latin America and South Asia. She is the author of Unexpected Power: Conflict and Change Among Transnational Activists (2006), co-editor of Human Rights in the United States: Beyond Exceptionalism (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and has published numerous scholarly articles. Hertel is incoming editor of The Journal of Human Rights and serves on the editorial boards of Human Rights Review, Human Rights and Human Welfare, and the International Studies Intensives book series of Paradigm Publishers.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword; Introduction: 1. Economic rights: the terrain Shareen Hertel and
Lanse Minkler; Part I. Concepts: 2. The West and economic rights Jack
Donnelly; 3. A needs-based approach to social and economic rights Wiktor
Osiatynski; 4. Economic rights in the knowledge economy: an instrumental
justification Albino Barrera; 5. 'None so poor that he is compelled to sell
himself': democracy, subsistence, and basic income Michael Goodhart; 6.
Benchmarking the right to work Philip Harvey; Part II. Measurement: 7. The
status of efforts to monitor economic, social, and cultural rights Audrey
R. Chapman; 8. Measuring the progressive realization of economic and social
rights Clair Apodaca; 9. Economic rights, human development effort, and
institutions Mwangi Samson Kimenyi; 10. Measuring government effort to
respect economic and social human rights: a peer benchmark David L.
Cingranelli and David L. Richards; 11. Government respect for women's
economic rights: a cross-national analysis, 1981-2003 Shawna E. Sweeney;
Part III. Policy Issues: 12. Economic rights and extraterritorial
obligations Sigrun I. Skogly and Mark Gibney; 13. Millenium development
goal 8: can it be an accountability framework for international human
rights obligations? Sakiko Fukuda-Parr; 14. The United States and
international economic rights: law, social reality, and political choice
David Forsythe; 15. Public policy and economic rights in Ghana and Uganda
Susan Dicklitch and Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann; 16. Human rights as
instruments of emancipation and economic development Kaushik Basu; 17.
Worker rights and economic development: the cases of occupational safety
and health and child labor Peter Dorman.