Abstract
Democracy and the protection of human rights generally go together, but not in India. India is an outlier in the cross-national research that aims to explain human rights performance. Using state-level subnational data and drawing on the approaches pioneered at the cross-national level, the authors examine the reasons for the outlier status. Their findings suggest that the aggregate whole-nation human rights and democracy scores misrepresent the political experience of much of India. The authors find that participation, political parties, and the level and nature of opposition threat help us understand the incidence of human fights violations within India.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 996-1018 |
Number of pages | 22 |
Journal | Comparative Political Studies |
Volume | 39 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Oct 2006 |
Keywords
- India
- human rights
- subnational politics
- elections
- REPRESSION
- KASHMIR
- WAR
- INSURGENCY
- GOVERNMENT