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Book SynopsisIn Strategies of Compliance with the European Court of Human Rights, Andreas von Staden looks at the nature of human rights challenges in two enduring liberal democracies—Germany and the United Kingdom. Employing an ambitious data set that covers the compliance status of all European Court of Human Rights judgments rendered until 2015, von Staden presents a cross-national overview of compliance that illustrates a strong correlation between the quality of a country''s democracy and the rate at which judgments have met compliance. Tracing the impact of violations in Germany and the United Kingdom specifically, he details how governments, legislators, and domestic judges responded to the court''s demands for either financial compensation or changes to laws, policies, and practices.
Framing his analysis in the context of the long-standing international relations debate between rationalists who argue that actions are dictated by an actor''s preferences and cost-benefit
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"Using deep case studies of the compliance by Germany and the United Kingdom with judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, Andreas von Staden merges theories of rationalism and constructivism in innovative and sensible ways." * Laurence R. Helfer, Duke University *
"Andreas von Staden empirically and theoretically identifies important trends in the way international and national institutions interact to mediate outcomes that affect important aspects of individual lives. His book is a welcome contribution to the literature on European judicial politics because it takes seriously the impact of European institutional judgements on domestic law and practices." * Lisa Conant, University of Denver *
Table of Contents
Introduction. The Convention, the Court, and Second-Order Compliance
Chapter 1. Compliance Theory: Rational Choice Within Normative Constraints
PART I. THE UNITED KINGDOM
Chapter 2. The Uneasy Place of the ECHR and ECtHR in UK Law and Politics
Chapter 3. Compliance with Just Satisfaction Awards and Individual Measures
Chapter 4. Compliance with General Measures I: Sociopolitical Issues
Chapter 5. Compliance with General Measures II: Security, Crime, and Justice
Chapter 6. Judgments Pending Before the Committee of Ministers
Chapter 7. Minimalism as the Strategy of Choice for the Reluctant Complier
PART II. GERMANY
Chapter 8. The Convention and Court Within Constitutionalized Rights Protection
Chapter 9. Compliance with Just Satisfaction Awards and Individual Measures
Chapter 10. Compliance with General Measures
Chapter 11. Exploiting Choice Within a Domestic Human Rights Culture
Conclusion. Human Rights Compliance as Normatively Constrained Rational Choice
Appendix. Further Judgments Against the United Kingdom
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
