The global diffusion of national human rights institutions and their political impact in Latin America

In this thesis, two questions are analysed: (1) why have National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) become so widely disseminated among contemporary states? And, (2) what explains the variable institutionalisation of NHRIs once activated? The thesis first traces the diffusion of NHRIs across politic...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pegram, Thomas Innes
Other Authors: Whitehead, Laurence
Published: University of Oxford 2011
Subjects:
320
Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.543624