“Rhetoric and Reality” Revisited

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Notes

¹It is interesting to note that this is the opposite of how to sell human rights to individuals, one at a time, as that is typically most effectively accomplished through encouraging moral reciprocity, not appealing to international norms.

²The second factor concerned socioeconomic rights, which are not included in this article due to length restrictions.

³See van der Waerden (1999–2000: 1631–1650).

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David L. Richards

David L. Richards is Associate Professor of Political Science and Human Rights at the University of Connecticut. He is also Co-Director of the CIRI Human Rights Data Project (www.humanrightsdata.org) and Co-Director of the Economic and Social Rights Research Group at the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut.