TY - BOOK ID - 78530905 TI - Human rights, state compliance, and social change : assessing national human rights institutions AU - Goodman, Ryan. AU - Pegram, Thomas Innes PY - 2012 SN - 1139199501 1107224616 1280565845 9786613597939 1139205323 1139019406 1139203142 1139201727 1139206125 1139204548 9781139206129 9781139019408 9781139204545 9780521761758 0521761751 9780521150170 0521150175 9781139203142 9781107224612 9781139199506 9781280565847 6613597937 9781139205320 9781139203142 9781139201728 PB - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - National human rights institutions. KW - Human rights. KW - International law. KW - National institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights KW - NHRIs (National human rights institutions) KW - Administrative agencies KW - Human rights advocacy KW - Law of nations KW - Nations, Law of KW - Public international law KW - Law KW - Basic rights KW - Civil rights (International law) KW - Human rights KW - Rights, Human KW - Rights of man KW - Human security KW - Transitional justice KW - Truth commissions KW - Law and legislation KW - International law KW - National human rights institutions KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Human Rights KW - General and Others UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78530905 AB - National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) - human rights commissions and ombudsmen - have gained recognition as a possible missing link in the transmission and implementation of international human rights norms at the domestic level. They are also increasingly accepted as important participants in global and regional forums where international norms are produced. By collecting innovative work from experts spanning international law, political science, sociology and human rights practice, this book critically examines the significance of this relatively new class of organizations. It focuses, in particular, on the prospects of these institutions to effectuate state compliance and social change. Consideration is given to the role of NHRIs in delegitimizing - though sometimes legitimizing - governments' poor human rights records and in mobilizing - though sometimes demobilizing - civil society actors. The volume underscores the broader implications of such cross-cutting research for scholarship and practice in the fields of human rights and global affairs in general. ER -