POLS 3212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 37: United States Department Of State, Brining
13 Dec 2018
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Independent variables: ratification, level of democracy, criticism (shame and blame). Explores impact of law (ratification of cat) and talk (un criticism) on state"s behavior on torture. Level of criticism of ratifiers through un processes. Level of democracy within states that ratify. We would expect: democracies that ratify cat are more responsive to criticism of their hr performance regarding torture than non-ratifying democracies (and the more democratic, the more responsive the state is) Surprisingly: even npn-democracies that ratify cat are more responsive to criticism than non-democracies that don"t ratify the treaty. Discuss roles of public pressure and institutional strength. Brining domestic polcu into accord with human rights norms is a process, not a magic moment . Processes associated with social pressure interact with other conditions to leverage ratification in a positive direction, and changes due to the effect of interaction action should be observable . Be care of crowding of effects of all talk, no action.
