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Human Rights in Democracies (Paperback)
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Human Rights in Democracies (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Human Rights
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Violations of the right to the physical integrity of the person,
such as torture, cruel and unusual punishment, extra-judicial
executions, disappearances, and political imprisonment have long
been treated as an anomaly in democratically governed societies. In
the current literature on human rights, violations of this right
are by-and-large seen as the hallmark of autocratic and repressive
regimes. This study takes on this dominant paradigm and shows not
only that the common assumption that democratic countries
effectively limit human rights abuse is simply wrong, but that its
widely accepted theory of what drives human rights violations
accounts for only a small part of these abuses at best. Haschke
shows that despite the increasing numbers of countries that are
democracies, and despite growing numbers of national signatories to
international treaties prohibiting human rights abuse, the number
of allegations has not declined. This book also demonstrates that
the bulk of this abuse, which takes the form of torture and
ill-treatment, extra-judicial killings, rape, and the like, is
committed against marginal members of society, seeming to reveal
environments that enable agents of the state to abuse those with
whom they are in contact. This violence is found in democracies and
dictatorships alike. This work will be of interest to students and
scholars of international relations, human rights and comparative
politics.
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