When All Else Fails
International Adjudication of Human Rights Abuse Claims, 1976-1999
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2998548 |
|---|---|
| Authors | W M Cole (0000-0001-5095-8645, Stanford University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 84 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1909-1935 |
| Publication date | 2006-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Forces (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7732 • E-ISSN: 1534-7605 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1353/sof.2006.0084 |
| OpenAlex | W2052206510 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 48 |
Although interest in the consolidation and expansion of the international human rights regime has grown in recent years, little attention is accorded to the formal procedures that allow individuals aggrieved by states to appeal directly to an international audience. Using data for 82 countries between 1976 and 1999, this article examines the political and cultural factors that produce cross-national variation in the propensity of individuals to file allegations of human rights abuse with the Human Rights Committee. Negative binomial and event history analyses indicate that the number and rate of human rights abuse claims (1) increase as a country's human rights practices worsen; (2) decline as domestic "opportunity structures" become available; and (3) increase with the cultural empowerment of individuals
Adjudication · Criminology · Human rights · Law and economics · Political science · Sociology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Political Conflict and Governance
No News Is Good News
‘Inside Out’
Through tobacco industry eyes
A Tale of Two Trends
The construction of human rights actorhood
Migration, International Telecommunications, and Human Rights 1
Hard and Soft Commitments to Human Rights Treaties, 1966–2000 1
Social Statistics and Ethnic Diversity
From the global South to the human rights stage
Reporting the International System
Individuals v. states
Electoral Competition and the Frequency of Initiative Use in the U.S. States
Individual Mobilization by Victims of Human Rights Abuse
The Latin Bias
Globally Visible Environmental Protest
World polity or world society? Delineating the statist and societal dimensions of the global institutional system
Technical and Institutional States
World Citizens on the Periphery
Institutionalizing shame
Institutional structure
Globalization and World Culture
Event History Analysis
Constructing World Culture
Do Human Rights Treaties Make a Difference?
The Clash of Civilizations
Conceptual origins, current problems, future direction
State/Culture
Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements
The Power of Human Rights
Rethinking the sovereign state model
Negative Multinomial Regression Models for Clustered Event Counts
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The Origins of Human Rights Regimes
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International human rights
Political Opportunity Structures and Political Protest
World Culture in the World Polity
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Religious Pluralism and Church Membership
Political Democracy and the Size Distribution of Income
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Inequality in the World Polity
What properties of culture should we measure
Clash of Civilizations, or Realism and Liberalism Déjà Vu? Some Evidence
Comparative Democracy
Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Political Regimes
If Not Civilizations, What? Paradigms of the Post-Cold War World
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Human Rights and Human Dignity
Global Civil Society and the International Human Rights Movement
Globalization
Protest and Political Opportunities
The Profusion of Individual Roles and Identities in the Postwar Period
The 'Actors' of Modern Society
Human Rights in a Globalizing World
World Society and the Nation-State
The Spread of Municipal Reform
Resource Mobilization and Social Movements
Institutional conditions for diffusion
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,12 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |