Human rights and authority patterns: State legitimacy in the modern era

Louis Stanley Furmanski, Purdue University

Abstract

This thesis is a comparative evaluation of the human rights performance of twenty Latin American nations between the years of 1973-1983. Two theoretical propositions are assessed: (1) that poor human rights performance can be attributed to the nature and extent of external economic linkages and, (2) that human rights violations are more prone to occur under conditions of rapid and uneven economic change. Indicators associated with internal socio-economic characteristics were found to be more significantly associated with variations in levels of human rights performance, though not at all times in the hypothesized direction.

Degree

Ph.D.

Advisors

Targ, Purdue University.

Subject Area

International law|International relations|Social structure

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