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Tsutsui, Kiyoteru. and Hafner-Burton, Emilie. "Human Rights Practices in a Globalizing World: The Local Effects of International Human Rights Law" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta Hilton Hotel, Atlanta, GA, Aug 16, 2003 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p107938_index.html>

Tsutsui, K. and Hafner-Burton, E. , 2003-08-16 "Human Rights Practices in a Globalizing World: The Local Effects of International Human Rights Law" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta Hilton Hotel, Atlanta, GA Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p107938_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: We examine an empirical puzzle about the impact of the international human rights regime on local human rights practices: despite the rise in state ratification of international human rights treaties, human rights violations are not decreasing at all. Both international legal and international relations scholars have been unable to explain this puzzle. We propose a world society approach that explains the decoupling between policy (ratification) and practice as well as positive effects of general linkage to international society. Our core arguments are that the global institutionalization of human rights has created an international context in which (1) governments ratify human rights treaties as a matter of window-dressing rather than a serious commitment to the cause of human rights, thus creating decoupling possibilities, but (2) the emergent global legitimacy of human rights, characterized by world-wide government linkage to international society, exerts institutional effects that improve actual human rights practices. Our statistical analyses on a global sample of government repression during the period 1976 to 1999 find support for both of our arguments.

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