Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 19 February 2015
- ISBN 9780199735501
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages296 pages
- Size 157x239x25 mm
- Weight 618 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 36 illustrations 0
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Short description:
This book charts new territory in examining state performance in progressively realizing social and economic rights. Developing a new measure -- the SERF Index -- and data set, it provides a global picture of progress, regress and disparities between and within countries, explores factors influencing country performance, and draws implications for the theory of progressive realization and state accountability.
MoreLong description:
One of the most ambitious legacies of the 20th century was the universal commitment to ensure freedom from want as a human right. How far have we progressed; to what extent are countries across the world living up to this commitment?
This book charts new territory in examining the extent to which countries meet their obligations to progressively realize social and economic rights -- the rights to education, food, health, housing, work and social security. States have long escaped accountability for these commitments by claiming inadequate resources. The authors develop an innovative evidence based index, the Social & Economic Rights Fulfillment (SERF) Index and Achievement Possibilities Frontier methodology, making possible for the first time apples-to-apples comparisons of performance across very differently situated countries and over time. The book provides an overall global picture of progress, regress and disparities amongst and within countries and explores the factors influencing performance -- including whether treaty and legal commitments, gender equity, democracy/autocracy, and economic growth, explain good performance -- revealing surprising results. The data provide empirical evidence to resolve some long standing controversies over the principle of 'progressive realization'. The book concludes by observing how the SERF Index can be used in evidence based social science research, policy making and accountability procedures to advance social and economic rights.
By defying the boundaries of traditional research disciplines, this work fundamentally advances our knowledge about the status of and factors promoting social and economic rights fulfillment at the dawn of the 21st century.
The Cold War debate in which the West stood for civil and political rights and the Soviet Union argued for economic and social rights was sterile and stillborn. It ignored the fundamental insight of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: human beings require both to live in dignity and flourish. Taking economic and social rights seriously will be as important for the survival of democracies in this century as safeguarding their heritage of civil and political rights. This book is an important and useful step in that direction.
Table of Contents:
List of Boxes
List of Tables
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Measuring Social and Economic Rights: the SERF Index Approach
Chapter 3: Constructing the SERF Index: Progressive Realization and Aggregation
Chapter 4: Constructing the SERF Index: From Rights Enjoyment to Indicators
Chapter 5: A Global Picture of Social and Economic Rights Fulfillment
Chapter 6: What Matters for Strong Performance?
Chapter 7: Responding to Critics: Trade-Offs, Policy Choices, Historical
Chapter 8: Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
About the Authors
Index
