Human Rights and Public Finance

Budgets and the Promotion of Economic and Social Rights

Bibliographic Data

ID19903932
AuthorsAoife Nolan (0000-0002-6617-2687), Colin Harvey (0000-0002-2147-6580), Colin J Harvey, Rory O’connell (0000-0002-5655-055X)
Year2013
Publication date2013-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueHuman Rights and Public Finance (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherHart Publishing (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5040/9781474200271
OpenAlexW137007419
Open LibraryOL30950483M
ISBN9781474200271
LanguageEN
Citations received11

This edited collection addresses some of the most important challenges in contemporary human rights law and practice. Its central theme is the linkage between public finance, particularly budget decisions, and the realisation (or not) of economic and social rights. While much academic and political debate on economic and social rights implementation has focused on the role of the courts, this work places the spotlight squarely on those organs of government that have the primary responsibility and the greatest capacity for giving effect to such rights: namely, the elected branches of government. The major actors considered in this book are politicians, public servants and civil society, with their role in realising economic and social rights the work’s key focus. The book thus makes a crucial contribution to remedying the current imbalance in attention paid by economic and social rights scholars to the legislature and executive vis-a-vis the judiciary. Featuring pioneering work

Government (linguistics) · Human rights · Legislature · Political science · Politics · Promotion (chess) · Realisation · Social rights · Human Rights and Development · Law · Public Administration · Budget · Economic aspects · Finance, public · Moral and ethical aspects · Public Finance · ukslc

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