Adam Chilton, Mila Versteeg

How Constitutional Rights Matter

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Do countries that add rights to their constitutions actually do better at protecting those rights? This study draws on global statistical analyses and survey experiments to answer this question. It explores whether constitutionalizing rights improves respect for those rights in practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9780190871451
• ISBN-10: 0190871458
• Artikelnr.: 57825617

Autorenporträt

Adam Chilton is Professor of Law and Walter Mader Research Scholar at the University of Chicago Law School. Mila Versteeg is the Class of 1941 Research Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law and a Carnegie Fellow at the Andrew Carnegie Foundation of New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Introduction
PART I: Theory, Background, and Methods
Chapter 2. The Organizational Basis of Constitutional Rights Protection
Chapter 3. Existing Evidence
Chapter 4. The Rise of Rights Constitutionalism
Chapter 5. Research Methods
PART II: Individual Rights
Chapter 6. Individual Rights: Speech, Torture, and Movement
Chapter 7. Social Rights: Education and Healthcare
Chapter 8. Support for Constitutional Rights Violations
PART III: Organizational Rights
Chapter 9. Freedom of Religion
Chapter 10. Right to Unionize
Chapter 11. Right to Form Political Parties
PART IV: The Limits of Constitutional Rights
Chapter 12. Conclusion
APPENDIX
A1. Data Sources
A2. Regression Results
A3. Conditional Results: Courts and Democracy