PLCY 110 Exam 3 with correct answers
Human Rights - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔rights inherent to all
human beings, regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion,
or any other status.
Proscriptive Rights - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Government may not
infringe upon these rights, you have them and they can't be taken away (Bill of
Rights)
Prescriptive Rights - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Governments have
positive obligation to give you these rights- entitlements (Healthcare,
education, etc)
Western Countries privilege proscriptive rights
Civil Rights - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔the rights of citizens to
political and social freedom and equality.
Welfare rights - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔the rights of people to be
aware of and receive their maximum entitlement to state welfare benefits, and
to be treated reasonably well by the welfare system
Universalism - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔human rights should be
universal and apply to every human being. Everyone is entitled and all
governments are obligated to provide
,Relativism - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Human rights vary by culture
and governments should be free to decide which rights they need.
Cultural Relativists argue that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
(1948) rights are a part of western political history (ideology)
Realists - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Governments act in their own self-
interest, but don't feel bound when signing an international law
Liberal Institutionalists - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔These
treaties/institutions actually constrain and change behavior of governments
- Yes, domestic laws actually affect behavior because they are enforced. But will
international law be effective?
- Powerful countries are not likely to get punished for violating international
law
International Law - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔a body of rules
established by custom or treaty and recognized by nations as binding in their
relations with one another."
Human Rights Organizations Monitoring - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔-
Global media
- NGOs (ex: human rights watch)
- Individual states
- UN rights council (2005)- authority to investigate
, - Naming and Shaming (calling out a country)
ICCPR - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔International Convention on Civil
and Political Rights
Global Progression on Human Rights - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔Diffusion of norms -> treaties/international law -> monitoring ->
enforcement -> diffusion of norms
Enforcement of Human Rights - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔- Non-
coercive diplomacy
- Economic Sanctions
- Military Intervention
- Prosecute Individuals
Non-coercive Diplomacy - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔private
communication between two officials in two different countries; public
concern; can kick diplomats out of a country
Economic Sanctions - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔commercial and
financial penalties applied by one or more countries against a targeted country,
group, or individual. May include various forms of trade barriers, tariffs, and
restrictions on financial transactions.
(ex) over time, more countries were enacting these against apartheid in S
Africa -> pressure unraveled Apartheid
- Without international support, these aren't
Human Rights - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔rights inherent to all
human beings, regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion,
or any other status.
Proscriptive Rights - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Government may not
infringe upon these rights, you have them and they can't be taken away (Bill of
Rights)
Prescriptive Rights - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Governments have
positive obligation to give you these rights- entitlements (Healthcare,
education, etc)
Western Countries privilege proscriptive rights
Civil Rights - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔the rights of citizens to
political and social freedom and equality.
Welfare rights - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔the rights of people to be
aware of and receive their maximum entitlement to state welfare benefits, and
to be treated reasonably well by the welfare system
Universalism - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔human rights should be
universal and apply to every human being. Everyone is entitled and all
governments are obligated to provide
,Relativism - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Human rights vary by culture
and governments should be free to decide which rights they need.
Cultural Relativists argue that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
(1948) rights are a part of western political history (ideology)
Realists - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Governments act in their own self-
interest, but don't feel bound when signing an international law
Liberal Institutionalists - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔These
treaties/institutions actually constrain and change behavior of governments
- Yes, domestic laws actually affect behavior because they are enforced. But will
international law be effective?
- Powerful countries are not likely to get punished for violating international
law
International Law - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔a body of rules
established by custom or treaty and recognized by nations as binding in their
relations with one another."
Human Rights Organizations Monitoring - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔-
Global media
- NGOs (ex: human rights watch)
- Individual states
- UN rights council (2005)- authority to investigate
, - Naming and Shaming (calling out a country)
ICCPR - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔International Convention on Civil
and Political Rights
Global Progression on Human Rights - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔Diffusion of norms -> treaties/international law -> monitoring ->
enforcement -> diffusion of norms
Enforcement of Human Rights - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔- Non-
coercive diplomacy
- Economic Sanctions
- Military Intervention
- Prosecute Individuals
Non-coercive Diplomacy - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔private
communication between two officials in two different countries; public
concern; can kick diplomats out of a country
Economic Sanctions - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔commercial and
financial penalties applied by one or more countries against a targeted country,
group, or individual. May include various forms of trade barriers, tariffs, and
restrictions on financial transactions.
(ex) over time, more countries were enacting these against apartheid in S
Africa -> pressure unraveled Apartheid
- Without international support, these aren't
