POLI 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Spiral Model, Ford Foundation, Patricia M. Derian

• School: UCSD
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 122
• Professor: Maureen Feeley

Document Summary

Models of human rights to analyze protection of victims. 2 models (boomerang and spiral) challenge to realist theory that states act based on political/economic self- interests. 1 because models show that human rights can/do matter for victims and changing policies. 2. 5 shared values (international human rights) common discourse dense exchanges of info and services main functions (3) society, state, and international/transnational state: repression, denial, concessions, prescriptive status (rhetorical, rule-consistent behavior (real changes) movement across states. 5 strategies of tans (types of political contexts) 2. 2. 2 clearly defined cause, violation, and blame: actor characteristics network actors (density, numbers, strength, exchange of info, reliability) norm-violating states dependent on others, normatively vulnerable easier/harder to force change. Spiral model boomerang and dynamism/causal linear patch to human rights protections identify places states are vulnerable. 3 levels of analysis (society, state, international/transnational) progressive states (but not always consistently linear) 1 many states do not arrive at real changes #5, or they revert/backslide back)