Date of Award
4-2012
Document Type
Thesis
Department
Political Science
First Advisor
Patrick Donnay
Abstract
It has been a long-standing topic of discussion within the field of political science on the extent to which the establishment of democratic regime characteristics influences the development of human rights. While there is considerable research in the areas of democracy and human rights, what the literature lacks is research towards the growth of democratic regime characteristics being causal to the development of human rights practices. This analysis shows that a transition in democratic regime characteristics is directly linked to the development of human rights. After completing case-study analysis and developing causal theory I take data from the years 1981 and 2009 from both the Cingranelli and Richards Human Rights Data Project and the Polity IV Project: Political Regime Characteristics and combine them into one dataset. In the final analysis there is evidence of a strong causal link between the growth of certain democratic characteristics and the development of human rights.
Recommended Citation
McElhinney, Alana, "A Comparative Analysis of the Transitional Effect of Democratic Regime Change on Human Rights Development" (2012). Political Science Theses and Capstones. 121.
https://pines.bemidjistate.edu/capstone-polisci/121
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