Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is Professor of International Affairs at The New School. Terra Lawson-Remer is Assistant Professor of International Affairs and Economics at The New School. Susan Randolph is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Connecticut.

The Cold War debate in which the West stood for civil and political rights and the Soviet Union argued for economic and social rights was sterile and stillborn. It ignored the fundamental insight of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: human beings require both to live in dignity and flourish. Taking economic and social rights seriously will be as important for the survival of democracies in this century as safeguarding their heritage of civil and political rights. This book is an important and useful step in that direction.

• List of Boxes ; List of Tables ; List of Figures ; Acknowledgements ; Chapter 1: Introduction ; Chapter 2: Measuring Social and Economic Rights: the SERF Index Approach ; Chapter 3: Constructing the SERF Index: Progressive Realization and Aggregation ; Chapter 4: Constructing the SERF Index: From Rights Enjoyment to Indicators ; Chapter 5: A Global Picture of Social and Economic Rights Fulfillment ; Chapter 6: What Matters for Strong Performance? ; Chapter 7: Responding to Critics: Trade-Offs, Policy Choices, Historical ; Chapter 8: Conclusions ; Notes ; Bibliography ; About the Authors ; Index

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is Professor of International Affairs at The New School. Terra Lawson-Remer is Assistant Professor of International Affairs and Economics at The New School. Susan Randolph is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Connecticut.

The Cold War debate in which the West stood for civil and political rights and the Soviet Union argued for economic and social rights was sterile and stillborn. It ignored the fundamental insight of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: human beings require both to live in dignity and flourish. Taking economic and social rights seriously will be as important for the survival of democracies in this century as safeguarding their heritage of civil and political rights. This book is an important and useful step in that direction.

• List of Boxes ; List of Tables ; List of Figures ; Acknowledgements ; Chapter 1: Introduction ; Chapter 2: Measuring Social and Economic Rights: the SERF Index Approach ; Chapter 3: Constructing the SERF Index: Progressive Realization and Aggregation ; Chapter 4: Constructing the SERF Index: From Rights Enjoyment to Indicators ; Chapter 5: A Global Picture of Social and Economic Rights Fulfillment ; Chapter 6: What Matters for Strong Performance? ; Chapter 7: Responding to Critics: Trade-Offs, Policy Choices, Historical ; Chapter 8: Conclusions ; Notes ; Bibliography ; About the Authors ; Index

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is Professor of International Affairs at The New School. Terra Lawson-Remer is Assistant Professor of International Affairs and Economics at The New School. Susan Randolph is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Connecticut.

The Cold War debate in which the West stood for civil and political rights and the Soviet Union argued for economic and social rights was sterile and stillborn. It ignored the fundamental insight of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: human beings require both to live in dignity and flourish. Taking economic and social rights seriously will be as important for the survival of democracies in this century as safeguarding their heritage of civil and political rights. This book is an important and useful step in that direction.

• List of Boxes ; List of Tables ; List of Figures ; Acknowledgements ; Chapter 1: Introduction ; Chapter 2: Measuring Social and Economic Rights: the SERF Index Approach ; Chapter 3: Constructing the SERF Index: Progressive Realization and Aggregation ; Chapter 4: Constructing the SERF Index: From Rights Enjoyment to Indicators ; Chapter 5: A Global Picture of Social and Economic Rights Fulfillment ; Chapter 6: What Matters for Strong Performance? ; Chapter 7: Responding to Critics: Trade-Offs, Policy Choices, Historical ; Chapter 8: Conclusions ; Notes ; Bibliography ; About the Authors ; Index