Democracy and Human Rights in Developing Countries - Softcover

Arat, Zehra F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555875009 ISBN 13: 9781555875008

Verlag: Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

The 1980s saw a wave of democratisation sweeping the globe. Similar transformations were evident in the early 1950s, when modernisation theorists were optimistic about the future of democracy in newly emerging states; these new democracies, however, failed to maintain stability and vacillated between democratic and authoritarian regimes. Through a synthesis of the theories of modernization, dependency and bureaucratic authoritarianism, Arat explains this instability in terms of the imbalance between two groups of human rights: civil-political and socioeconomic. Arguing against those who believe that socioeconomic rights are group rights that can be maintained only at the expense of individual civil-political rights - and that a trade-off between liberty and equality is inevitable - Arat demonstrates that the stability of democracy requires a balance between the two groups of human rights. A historic review, an empirical analysis of more than 150 countries, and case studies of Costa Rica, India and Turkey support her thesis that developing countries that recognise civil-political rights and establish democratic systems fail to maintain them if they neglect socioeconomic rights.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1555875009
• ISBN 13: 9781555875008
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 217
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