Human Rights Based Approaches to Development
Concepts, Evidence, and Policy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6445726 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Varun Gauri (0000-0001-6720-5738), Siri Gloppen (0000-0001-5745-8109) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 485-503 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Polity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3497 • E-ISSN: 1744-1684 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1596/1813-9450-5938 |
| OpenAlex | W1996098966 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 8 |
This paper assesses the benefits, risks, \n and limitations of human rights based approaches to \n development, which can be catalogued on the basis of the \n institutional mechanisms they rely on: global compliance \n based on international and regional treaties; the policies \n and programming of donors and executive agencies; rights \n talk; and legal mobilization. The paper briefly reviews the \n politics of the first three kinds of human rights based \n approaches before examining constitutionally based legal \n mobilization for social and economic rights in greater \n detail. Litigation for social and economic rights is \n increasing in frequency and scope in several countries, and \n exhibits appealing attributes, such as inclusiveness and \n deliberative quality. Still, there are potential problems \n with this form of human rights based mobilization, including \n middle class capture, the potential counter-majoritarianism \n of courts, and difficulties in compliance. The conclusion \n summarizes what is known, and what remains to be studied, \n regarding human rights based approaches to development
Compliance (psychology · Economics · Human rights · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Scope (computer science · Computer Science · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Human Rights and Development · Law · Legal Issues in South Africa · Public Administration
| Citations per year | 0.42 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |