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ECONOMIC SYSTEMS, POLITICAL STRUCTURES AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Author(s) -
Rao M. J. Manohar,
Karnik Ajit V.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
bulletin of economic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.227
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-8586
pISSN - 0307-3378
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8586.1994.tb00585.x
Subject(s) - nexus (standard) , human rights , civil liberties , politics , economics , economic interventionism , government (linguistics) , international human rights law , public economics , economic system , political economy , development economics , political science , law , linguistics , philosophy , computer science , embedded system
The paper deals with the estimation of comparable human rights ratings (defined as a composite of political rights, civil liberties and state power indices) for 154 countries, excluding territories, of the world in 1983. It then develops a theory to gauge the sensitivity of these ratings to a specific disaggregation suggested by the theory of political economy and establishes the close nexus existing between economic systems, political structures and human rights. The results indicate that increasing government intervention, whether economic or political, unequivocally tends to worsen the human rights situation. Moreover, it is seen that affluence and income distribution are significant predictors of human rights ratings across countries.