Political Repression: Courts and the Law

by Linda Camp Keith

The world seems to have reached agreement on a set of ideals regarding state human rights behavior and the appropriate institutions to promote and protect those ideals. The global script for state legitimacy calls for a written constitution or the equivalent with an embedded bill of rights, democratic processes and institutions, and increasingly, a judicial check on state power to protect human rights. While the progress toward universal formal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812243811
• ISBN13: 9780812243819
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.1"