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Kendrick, Abby (2017) Measuring compliance : social rights and the maximum available resources dilemma. Human Rights Quarterly, 39 (3). 657-679 . doi:10.1353/hrq.2017.0036 ISSN 0275-0392.
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2017.0036
Abstract
This article argues that since fulfilment of social rights is dependent on the availability of resources we must look beyond the field of international human rights, to economics, to provide a stylised way of thinking about measuring compliance. Using conditional rights as a starting point, the article argues that there are certain normative and practical factors that limit social rights and it is in allowing for these factors that gives rise to the maximum resources dilemma: how can the content of social rights be determined if it is allowed to differ across resource contexts, and how can compliance be measured if the content is not determinate? It argues further that the empirical tools of microeconomics offer a systematic way to deal with the dilemma and outlines a methodological sketch for measuring compliance.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | K Law [Moys] > KC International Law | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | International law and human rights -- Economic aspects -- Testing -- Methodology | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Human Rights Quarterly | ||||||
Publisher: | The Johns Hopkins University Press | ||||||
ISSN: | 0275-0392 | ||||||
Official Date: | August 2017 | ||||||
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Volume: | 39 | ||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||
Page Range: | 657-679 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1353/hrq.2017.0036 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 13 February 2017 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 30 November 2017 | ||||||
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