The Effectiveness of US Human Rights Policy, 1973–1980
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23635013 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathryn Sikkink (0000-0003-0335-742X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Pages | 93-124 |
| Publication date | 2001-06-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The International Dimensions of Democratization (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/0199243751.003.0004 |
| OpenAlex | W2489772080 |
| ISBN | 9780199243754 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
The history of US human rights policy in Latin America provides useful case studies of the interplay between ‘control’ and ‘consent’ aspects of democratization. It presents a preliminary analysis of the influence of US human rights policy on human rights practices and democratization in Argentina, Guatemala, and Uruguay in the 1970s and early 1980s, focusing primarily on the Carter period. In each of these cases, the US policy attempted to influence the domestic human rights situation by linking the improvement of human rights practices to the provision of military or economic aid. But, the nature of the pressures applied and the responses thereto were quite different in the three countries, reflecting the importance of ‘consent’ issues, determined by the state of democratic transition achieved within the country concerned, in modifying the effects of ‘control’ pressures.
Democracy · Democratic system · Democratization · Human rights · Latin Americans · Political science · Politics · State (computer science) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Human Rights and Development · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,24 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2024 (20) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |