NDLI: Treaty Commitment as a Signaling Device: Explaining the Ratification of the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights

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Author	Wang, Zhiyuan
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	This study investigates the determinants of the ratification of International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). To do so, it proposes an explanation that postulates that states employ treaty ratification as a device to signal their resolve to implement polices required by the treaty at issue in order to appease demanding domestic constituencies, predicting that states with lower compliance capacity tend to commit faster than states with higher compliance capacity. Applying this explanation to the ICESCR leads to two expectations. First, the larger government spending a proxy of high compliance capacity is hypothesized to delay the ratification process. Second, states with the unitary system are expected to ratify the ICESCR more promptly because the centralized power structure in unitary states significantly restricts the pursuit of the policy autonomy by minorities at local level that the right to self-determination entails. The Cox proportional hazard analysis lends support to both hypotheses.
Starting Page	193
Ending Page	220
Page Count	28
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15248879
Journal	Human Rights Review
Volume Number	17
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	18746306
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2016-02-13
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Signaling Treaty commitment Human rights The ICESCR Economic Social and cultural rights Social Philosophy Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights Human Rights Terrorism and Political Violence Poverty, Aid and Development Political Philosophy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Law

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
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3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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