About the Book

About the Author

Dr. Todd Landman (BA UPenn, MA Georgetown, MA Colorado, PhD Essex) is a Reader in the Department of Government and member of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex in the United Kingdom. He is author of Protecting Human Rights: A Comparative Study (Georgetown University Press, 2005), Issues and Methods in Comparative Politics (Routledge, 2000, 2003) and co-author of Governing Latin America (Polity 2003) and Citizenship Rights and Social Movements (Oxford University Press 1997, 2000). He has numerous articles in International Studies Quarterly, The British Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Democratization, Human Rights Quarterly, and Political Studies. He is on the editorial board of Human Rights Quarterly, Human Rights and Human Welfare, and the Revista Iberoamericana de Derechos Humanos. He has been a consultant for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Development Programme, the European Commission, the International Centre for Transitional Justice, Minority Rights Group International, and the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA).