Inr4075 Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Lecture 13 - Cingranelli and Filippov Maximize accountability and awareness through: low district magnitude - number of legislative seats from each district (raises both accountability and awareness); proportional representation system - percentage of the vote that the party got is the percentage of seats they get (raises both accountability and awareness); individual candidates - voting for a person and that person gets elected (raises accountability) Electoral Rules and Incentives t...

According to Poe and Tate, how does the level of development influence repression?poorer countries repress more than richer ones A State has both negative and positive obligations to respect human rights. What is a negative obligation?An obligation to refrain from certain behaviors directed at the population Which of the following are considered personal or physical integrity rights?freedom from unlawful imprisonment, disappearance, torture, execution What is the law of coercive respons...

To start, is cosmopolitanism achievable? If so, what are some empirical examples of its existence today? Whether it is possible or not, is cosmopolitanism a favorable outcome or does individual state sovereignty provide some benefits?

To what extent does ISIS violates the human rights of Yazidi women and the role of culture as a cause of this genocide