Of One’s Own Making

Leadership Legitimation Strategy and Human Rights

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10071826
AutoresStephen Bagwell (0000-0002-1431-9114, Department of Political Science, University of Missouri—St. Louis, St Louis, MO, USA, autor de correspondencia), Matthew Rains (0000-0002-0338-8691, University of Georgia), Meridith LaVelle (0000-0001-5793-1293, University of Georgia)
Año2023
Fecha de publicación2023-12-15
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Conflict Resolution (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-0027 • E-ISSN: 1552-8766
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00220027231220006
OpenAlexW4389777490
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas46

Why do states and their agents abuse citizens? Traditional explanations focus on contentious politics, the presence of institutions, and international pressures. Despite this, accounts dissecting the state and its agents in this context of abuse remain largely theoretic in nature. This article offers a breakthrough for within-the-state accounts of human rights abuses by focusing on state leaders and their relationship to broader government institutions and function. We posit that personalist leaders have fundamentally different relationship with institutions that foster human rights respect, arguing that leaders relying on their own merits and qualities are less likely to either activate or manipulate institutions of accountability for human rights abuses. Using data from 1991 to 2019, we show that the presence of leaders legitimizing themselves within personalist framing can worsen human rights conditions

Accountability · Context (archaeology · Framing (construction · Human rights · Law and economics · Legitimation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Political Conflict and Governance · Political Philosophy and Ethics