Terra Lawson-Remer

Biographic Data

ID1542100
NAMETerra Lawson-Remer
GIVEN NAMESTerra
FAMILY NAMELawson-Remer
SIGNATURELAWSON-REMER T
AFFILIATIONSNew School
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS28
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
H-INDEX3

  • Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights

    Sakiko Fukuda‐parr, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr et al.BOOKFulfilling Social and Economic…2015

    One of the most ambitious legacies of the 20th century was the universal commitment to ensure freedom from want as a human right. How far have we progressed; to what extent are countries across the world living up to this commitment? This book charts new territory in examining the extent to which countries meet their obligations to progressively realize social and economic rights -- the rights to education, food, health, housing, work and social …

  • Property Rights and Power

    Terra Lawson-RemerARTICLECurrent History2013

    [C]apitalist growth has often been built on the expropriation of valuable resources from powerless, marginalized groups, and the reallocation of these resources to more politically powerful, and sometimes more economically productive, new owners

  • Do Stronger Collective Property Rights Improve Household Welfare? Evidence from a Field Study in Fiji

    Open AccessTerra Lawson-RemerARTICLEWorld Development2013Cited by: 3References: 18

  • Austerity and Democracy

    Terra Lawson-RemerARTICLESocial research2013

    This article focuses narrowly on three critical economic issues and their relationship to democratic transitions: economic crisis, economic growth and the middle class, and public expectations for social and economic opportunities. History provides compelling insights. First, short-term economic crises are often the proximate trigger of regime change. Second, economic growth under autocracy does not lead to political freedom, but the robust middl…

  • Economic and Social Rights Fulfillment Index

    Susan Randolph, Sakiko Fukuda‐parr et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Rights2010Cited by: 10References: 1

    Building on a previously proposed methodology for an index of economic and social rights fulfillment, this article presents country scores and rankings based on the Economic and Social Rights Fulfillment Index (ESRF Index). Unlike socioeconomic indicators, which are often used as proxies for the extent to which rights-holders enjoy economic and social rights, the ESRF Index incorporates the perspective of the duty-bearer as well as the rights-hol…

  • An Index of Economic and Social Rights Fulfillment

    Sakiko Fukuda‐parr, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Rights2009Cited by: 15References: 2

    In response to an increasing demand for rigorous monitoring of states in meeting their human rights obligations, a growing literature has emerged on measuring human rights fulfillment. Data are increasingly used in human rights assessment and advocacy but with an ad hoc approach, with three common limitations: frequent use of subjective indicators; focus on the right bearer enjoyment of right without taking account of duty bearer conduct; and eve…