1st Edition

Human Rights in Democracies

By Peter Haschke Copyright 2018
212 Pages 60 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 60 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 60 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. The Not-So-Peaceful Domestic Democratic Peace

2. Approaches to the Study of Physical Integrity Rights Violations

3.  The Domestic Democratic Peace: A First Cut

4. The Standard Repression Model: A Second Cut

5.  A First Principle: Contact

6. Discriminating Among the Alternatives

7. Political and Non-Political Violations

8. Mechanisms of Non-Repressive Violations

9. Conclusion

Biography

Peter Haschke is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, USA.