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Human Rights Protection: The Role Of Institutional Capacity And Selective Adaptation, Pitman B. Potter
Human Rights Protection: The Role Of Institutional Capacity And Selective Adaptation, Pitman B. Potter
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This paper will examine the potential application of selective adaptation and institutional capacity to the understanding of international human rights norms and practices. Enforcement of international human rights norms depends on the capacity of intermediary institutions; that is, their ability to perform their assigned tasks. Institutional performance is in turn contingent on domestic political and socio-economic conditions, and as such, local conditions of rapid socio-economic and political transformation pose particular challenges. The other key concept in this paper, selective adaptation, describes a process by which practices and norms are exchanged across cultural boundaries. The dynamic of selective adaptation can operate …
China And The Human Right To Health: Selective Adaptation And Treaty Compliance, Pitman B. Potter
China And The Human Right To Health: Selective Adaptation And Treaty Compliance, Pitman B. Potter
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The international community has devoted considerable energy to dialogue and exchanges with China on issues of treaty compliance in areas of trade and human rights, and while many improvements are evident in China’s legal regimes for trade and human rights, problems remain. Further, academic and policy discourses on China’s trade and human rights policy and practice are all too often conflicted by normative differences and illusions about them. The paradigm of “selective adaptation” offers a potential solution by examining compliance with international trade and human rights treaties by reference to the interplay between normative systems associated with international rule regimes …