Pegram, T;
(2010)
Diffusion across political systems: The global spread of national human rights institutions.
Human Rights Quarterly
, 32
(3)
pp. 729-760.
10.1353/hrq.2010.0005.
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Abstract
This article examines the proliferation of national human rights institutions (NHRIs) and seeks to explain the drivers of this institutional innovation across contrasting political regimes. This article suggests that the NHRI phenomenon can be attributed to increasingly sophisticated international organizational platforms and three distinct, but complementary, mechanisms of diffusion: (1) coercion, (2) acculturation, and (3) persuasion. The article argues that a powerful international process of diffusion is at work and NHRIs are no longer the exclusive preserve of liberal democratic regimes. Instead NHRIs have diffused to a wide range of political systems, subjecting these human rights institutions to new and often competing demands and expectations.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Diffusion across political systems: The global spread of national human rights institutions |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1353/hrq.2010.0005 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2010.0005 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2010 The Johns Hopkins University Press. This article first appeared in Human Rights Quarterly 32:3 (2010), 729-760. Reprinted with permission by Johns Hopkins University Press. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Political Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1404027 |
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