State Capacity, State Failure, and Human Rights
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3916236 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Neil A Englehart (Bowling Green State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 163-180 |
| Publication date | 2009-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Peace Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3433 • E-ISSN: 1460-3578 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022343308100713 |
| OpenAlex | W2020167265 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 103 |
| References cited | 60 |
While it is universally recognized that states are responsible for human rights conditions in their jurisdictions, it is less often noticed that this responsibility has two dimensions, one normative and one empirical. Normatively, most people agree that states ought to prevent human rights abuses. Empirically, however, states may not always be able to do so. In weak and failing states, agency loss and the inability to police effectively can lead to abuses by private individuals and rogue agents of the state. Thus, on balance, weak states typically have worse human rights records than strong ones. This is demonstrated by a global time-series cross-section analysis showing that indicators of state weakness - low tax revenues, corruption, and lack of law and order - all have a negative impact on human rights to personal security. The effect differs for different kinds of rights. Extrajudicial killings are highly sensitive to state capacity, while political imprisonment is more sensitive to democracy. Overall, however, it appears that the totalitarian model of human rights abuse by excessively strong states applies to a restricted set of cases. The more common problem is states that cannot effectively protect human rights. We must take state failure seriously when thinking about the causes of - and remedies for - human rights abuse
Fundamental rights · Human rights · International human rights law · Law and economics · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science) · State responsibility · Corruption and Economic Development · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Law · Political Conflict and Governance
Does US Foreign Aid Undermine Human Rights? The “Thaksinification” of the War on Terror Discourses and the Human Rights Crisis in Thailand, 2001 to 2006
Discrepancy in State Practices
Governing Security after War
Who Is a Political Prisoner
The Hard Power of Natural Resources
Career Pressures and Organizational Evil
Diffusion of norms in a developing country
State capacity and health system financing
Measures of state capacity
Sunlight, culture and state capacity
The self-defeating game
To co-opt or coerce? State capacity, regime strategy, and organized religion in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam
Ought It Audit? Information, Values, and Public Support for the Internal Revenue Service
Does counterinsurgency fuel civil war? Peru and Syria compared
Examining extrajudicial killings
Civil society and the contemporary threat to religious freedom in Bangladesh
Human trafficking
Lethal Violence and the Racialized Failure of the American State
State Capacity and Covid-19 Responses
The Will and the Way
Treaty Commitment as a Signaling Device
Impunity and Economic and Social Rights
Economic sanctions, repression capacity, and human rights
The Cedaw Effect
The effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on human rights practices
Human rights data for everyone
News about her
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the strategic shift to forced disappearance
Does might make right or fight? Coercive capacity, democracy, and human rights, 1975 to 2010
Does social spending add substance to formal rights
Hindsight is 2020
Shifting police strategies
Publicity and perceptions of risk
Dirty war
Foreign aid and the fragile consensus on state fragility
Pro-market economic policies and women’s economic wellbeing
State failure, genocide and politicide reconsidered
The determinants of public gender egalitarianism at the national level
Exploring the Relationship Between Gender Violence and State Failure
Naming, Shaming, and International Sporting Events
International Conflict Involvement, Domestic Repression, and the Escalation of Civil Conflict
Speaking Rights To Power
China’s rise and physical integrity rights in developing countries
The Power of Ideational Reach
Manpower to coerce and co-opt—State capacity and political violence in southern Sudan 2006–2010
Confronting human trafficking
Is collective repression an effective counterinsurgency technique? Unpacking the cyclical relationship between repression and civil conflict
Blood in the Village
Building Capacity, Building Rights? State Capacity and Labor Rights in Developing Countries
Improving Governance for the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals
The Effect of IMF Programs on Women’s Economic and Political Rights
Refugees, Economic Capacity, and Host State Repression
Military capacity and state-perpetrated killings during internal conflicts
Beyond the ‘RtoP’
The Global Victimization of Children
Regional Courts, Domestic Politics, and the Struggle for Human Rights
Leviathan’s Latent Dimensions
The Role of Rights-Based Social Work in Contemporary Latin American Diasporas
Do human rights violations increase the risk of civil war
Willingness, capacities and (non)compliance with human rights norms
Public support for political conditionality in Africa
Interventions and repression following civil conflict
Are stronger states more humane? A re-evaluation of ‘exemplary villains’
Of One’s Own Making
Natural Disasters and Human Trafficking
Threats to human rights
Zuverlässig invalide – Indizes zur Messung fragiler Staatlichkeit
The contextualized index of statehood (CIS)
Non-enforcement as a tool of mediation in pluralistic societies
Impunidad, corrupción y derechos humanos
Linkage leverage democratization and liberalization
Disaggregating state fragility
Humanitarian aid and host state capacity
Motivated and Able to Make a Difference? The Reinforcing Effects of Democracy and State Capacity on Human Development
Managing to mitigate abuse
Does respect for human rights vary across ‘civilizations’? A statistical reexamination
Limited state and strong social forces
Willingness
Bringing the State Back In
International Development NGOs and Bureaucratic Capacity
Why the Public Supports the Human Rights of Prisoners and Asylum Seekers
Revisiting the Causal Links between Economic Sanctions and Human Rights Violations
Subnational State Capacity and the Repression of Protest
The Logic of Transitional Justice and State Repression
Mind the Gap
Economic sanctions and labour rights abuses in target countries
Exploring the relationship between infrastructural and coercive state capacity
Religious Protection from Populist Violence
Identifying Patterns in the Structural Drivers of Intrastate Conflict
Principals, Agents and Human Rights
The Physical Consequences of Fiscal Flexibility
External Threats, Capacity, and Repression
Repudiation and Repression
For better or worse
Uneven accountability in the wake of political violence
A social science of human rights
Can states buy peace? Social welfare spending and civil conflicts
A Chinese resource curse? The human rights effects of oil export dependence on China versus the United States
Are International Human Rights Organizations Effective in Protecting Religious Freedom
State Absenteeism
Africa works
Reflections on violence
The Formation of national States in Western Europe
Agents of Atrocity
World Development Report 1997
Embedded Autonomy
Syndromes of Corruption
Institutions Rule
Life-Integrity Violations and Democracy in the World, 1987
Global Community
Quasi-States
States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control
The Myth of the Powerless State
Governance Matters III
The Logic of Political Survival
The Sinews of Power
Patterns of Democracy
Sovereignty
The Politics of Collective Violence
The Power of Human Rights
On the state, democratization and some conceptual problems
A Revised List of Wars Between and Within Independent States, 1816-2002
Domestic Violence as a Human Rights Issue
Coercion, capital, and European states, 990–1990
Monitoring Trends in Global Combat
Taxation data as indicators of state-society relations
The State as a Conceptual Variable
Asylum Recognition Rates in Western Europe
Journal of Peace Research
Repression of the Human Right to Personal Integrity Revisited
Transnational Organizations in World Politics
Human Rights Violations, Umbrella Concepts, and Empirical Analysis
Islamism, Revolution, and Civil Society
Governments Against States
Sensitivity Analysis of Empirical Results on Civil War Onset
Thinking Inside the Box
Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy
Making the Most of Statistical Analyses
Liberal Democracy
Democracy and the Violation of Human Rights
The New Economics of Organization
Local determinants of African civil wars, 1970-2001
Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic
Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation
Governing the Market
Civil Society
Repression of Human Rights to Personal Integrity in the 1980s
The Evolution of Armed Conflict in Medellín
Justice Lost! The Failure of International Human Rights Law To Matter Where Needed Most
One-Sided Violence Against Civilians in War
Good Things to Those Who Wait? National Elections and Government Respect for Human Rights
The United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
State Repression and the Tyrannical Peace
Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War
| Unique citing works | 103 |
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| Citations per year | 7,36 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 101 |