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Replication Data for: From Litigation to Rights: The Case of the European Court of Human Rights

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Title Replication Data for: From Litigation to Rights: The Case of the European Court of Human Rights
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/MATY7H
 
Creator Haglund, Jillienne
Welch, Ryan M
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Do regional human rights courts influence respect for rights? Beyond providing remedy for individual human rights abuse, case outcomes help frame potential social mobilization by setting standards and raising the rights consciousness of civil society actors. The expectation of mobilization can increase the government’s costs of flouting the court’s rulings. We argue that an enabling domestic environment characterized by two features increases government expectation of mobilization following regional court litigation. First, a robust civil society creates strong horizontal ties between potential mobilizing groups. Second, a national human rights institution (NHRI) creates vertical ties that both transfer information down from the court to civil society; and transfer demands up from civil society to political elites in position to make stronger human rights policy. Using data for all Council of Europe countries from 1980 to 2012, we find European Court of Human Rights litigation associated with higher respect for rights in an enabling domestic environment characterized by strong civil society and the presence of a NHRI.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Human Rights, Social Mobilization, Council of Europe, ECHR
 
Contributor Prins, Brandon