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Assaf Meydani - The Anatomy of Human Rights in Israel, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

The Anatomy of Human Rights in Israel

Constitutional Rhetoric and State Practice

Av Assaf Meydani

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Beskrivning
Why is there such a large gap between the declarations that countries make about human rights and their imperfect implementation of them? Why do states that have enacted laws and signed treaties about human rights choose to not enforce these laws in daily life? Why have activists failed to achieve the goals of ensuring human rights domestically and internationally? This book examines the issue of human rights in the Israeli domestic arena by analyzing the politics and strategies of defending human rights. To do so, it integrates the tools of social choice theory with a unique institutionalist perspective that looks at both formal and informal, and local and international factors. The book offers an analysis explaining the processes through which Israel is struggling to promote human rights within a specific institutional environment, thus determining the future of Israeli democracy and its attitude toward human rights.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2016-04-28
  • Mått: 152 x 230 x 16 mm
  • Vikt: 470 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 314
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781107695764
  • Utmärkelser: Best Book Award, Israeli Political Science Association 2015
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Assaf Meydani is an Associate Professor in the School of Government and Society at the Academic College of Tel Aviv, Yaffo, Israel. His research interests include public policy, politics and law, and political economy. He is the author of several books, including The Israeli Supreme Court and the Human Rights Revolution: Courts as Agenda Setters (2011), Political Transformations and Political Entrepreneurs: Israel in Comparative Perspective (2009) and Public Responsibility and Political Consumption (2009, in Hebrew). His articles have appeared in journals such as Israel Studies, the Israel Law Review, Policy and Society, Constitutional Political Economy, Rationality and Society, Land Use Policy, Contemporary Security Policy, and the International Journal of Public Administration, and in the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy.

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'The book is a significant attempt at a nonpartisan intervention in an important but highly contentious discussion. Meydani argues that the problems of implementing human rights in contemporary Israel are rooted in a systematic problem of nongovernability, a fundamentally nonliberal political culture, and a general orientation towards short-term, goal-oriented legal and judicial solutions. Making effective use of a wide variety of case studies (including torture, gender segregation, the security fence, organ transplants, and the failure to create a human rights commission) Meydani depicts an Israel that is structurally unable to implement fully its human rights obligations - yet remains deeply if imperfectly committed to struggling to do so.' Jack Donnelly, Andrew Mellon Professor, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver

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