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Can Globalization Promote Human Rights? / Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Essays on Human Rights ; 3Publisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780271051130
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  • 323 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms -- 1 Human Rights and Globalization -- 2 Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality -- 3 Global Neoliberalism -- 4 A Positive Model -- 5 Negative Models -- 6 Global Human Rights Governance -- 7 Civil Society -- 8 The Politics of Resentment -- 9 The Primacy of Politics -- References -- Index
Summary: Globalization has affected everyone's lives, and the reactions to it have been mixed. Legal scholars and political scientists tend to emphasize its harmful aspects, while economists tend to emphasize its benefits. Those concerned about human rights have more often been among the critics than among the supporters of globalization. In Can Globalization Promote Human Rights? Rhoda Howard-Hassmann presents a balanced account of the negative and positive features of globalization in relation to human rights, in both their economic and civil/political dimensions. On the positive side, she draws on substantial empirical work to show that globalization has significantly reduced world poverty levels, even while, on the negative side, it has exacerbated economic inequality across and within countries. Ultimately, she argues, social action and political decision making will determine whether the positive effects of globalization outweigh the negatives. And, in contrast to those who prefer either schemes for redistributing wealth on moral grounds or authoritarian socialist approaches, she makes the case for social democracy as the best political system for the protection of all human rights, civil and political as well as economic.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms -- 1 Human Rights and Globalization -- 2 Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality -- 3 Global Neoliberalism -- 4 A Positive Model -- 5 Negative Models -- 6 Global Human Rights Governance -- 7 Civil Society -- 8 The Politics of Resentment -- 9 The Primacy of Politics -- References -- Index

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Globalization has affected everyone's lives, and the reactions to it have been mixed. Legal scholars and political scientists tend to emphasize its harmful aspects, while economists tend to emphasize its benefits. Those concerned about human rights have more often been among the critics than among the supporters of globalization. In Can Globalization Promote Human Rights? Rhoda Howard-Hassmann presents a balanced account of the negative and positive features of globalization in relation to human rights, in both their economic and civil/political dimensions. On the positive side, she draws on substantial empirical work to show that globalization has significantly reduced world poverty levels, even while, on the negative side, it has exacerbated economic inequality across and within countries. Ultimately, she argues, social action and political decision making will determine whether the positive effects of globalization outweigh the negatives. And, in contrast to those who prefer either schemes for redistributing wealth on moral grounds or authoritarian socialist approaches, she makes the case for social democracy as the best political system for the protection of all human rights, civil and political as well as economic.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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