Political Science Perspectives on Human Rights |
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Authors: | Steven D Roper Lilian A Barria |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Political Science, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL 61920, USA |
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Abstract: | This special issue of Human Rights Review is devoted to an exploration of the current human rights research agendas within the political science discipline. Research
on human rights is truly an interdisciplinary quest in which various epistemologies can contribute to each other and form
a larger dialogue concerning rights and wrongs. This special issue is devoted to an expansive understanding of the state of
research on human rights in the political science discipline. One common theme throughout these contributions is the need
for a more nuanced conceptualization of human rights, tools to promote these rights and as social scientists, methodologies
employed to study these rights. A second theme is the policy relevance that can be derived from our empirical analysis. This
volume demonstrates that the integration of theoretically and normatively rich concepts, empirical social science, and policy
relevance do not have to be mutually exclusive when studying human rights. |
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Keywords: | Human rights research Normative political science Empirical political science Policy relevance |
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