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Domestic legislatures and international law : = Explaining state participation and compliance with United Nations human rights treaties.

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Title/Author:	Domestic legislatures and international law :/
Reminder of title:	Explaining state participation and compliance with United Nations human rights treaties.
Author:	Comstock, Audrey Lynn.
Description:	1 online resource (285 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-06(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-06A(E).
Subject:	Political science. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9781369560817

Domestic legislatures and international law : = Explaining state participation and compliance with United Nations human rights treaties.
Comstock, Audrey Lynn.

Domestic legislatures and international law :Explaining state participation and compliance with United Nations human rights treaties. - 1 online resource (285 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-06(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)

Includes bibliographical references

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

This project examines the untapped area of international legal engagement and the dynamic ways that states use treaty actions as a means of communication. This project focuses on two central questions: 1) What explains when and why states engage with treaty law 2) What effect, if any, does engagement have on compliance levels? I argue that involvement of the domestic legislature at the ratification and implementation stages helps explain legal engagement via commitment and post-commitment actions. Timing of legal actions influences observed compliance levels. I use a multi-methods approach to address these questions. First, I collect the legal treaty actions made towards each of the core United Nations human rights treaties. Statistical analyses examine the role commitment actions have in compliance levels with treaty law. I specifically focus on the ICCPR and CEDAW treaties for empirical analysis of compliance, drawing on other human rights treaties for comparative analysis. Drawing from the cases of the United States, Canada, and the Netherlands, I examine the role of domestic legislatures on international legal behavior. In the end the timing and amount of legislative involvement in the treaty process have major consequences for how, when, and how frequently states engage with international law. States confronting legislative barriers to ratification tend to sign treaties earlier than states without barriers. For these states signature, not ratification, becomes the significant and defining point of human rights behavior change.

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ISBN: 9781369560817Subjects--Topical Terms:

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