Human Rights and Public Finance
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Human Rights and Public Finance

Budgets and the Promotion of Economic and Social Rights

  1. 274 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Human Rights and Public Finance

Budgets and the Promotion of Economic and Social Rights

About this book

This edited collection addresses some of the most important challenges in contemporary human rights law and practice. Its central theme is the linkage between public finance, particularly budget decisions, and the realisation (or not) of economic and social rights. While much academic and political debate on economic and social rights implementation has focused on the role of the courts, this work places the spotlight squarely on those organs of government that have the primary responsibility and the greatest capacity for giving effect to such rights: namely, the elected branches of government. The major actors considered in this book are politicians, public servants and civil society, with their role in realising economic and social rights the work's key focus. The book thus makes a crucial contribution to remedying the current imbalance in attention paid by economic and social rights scholars to the legislature and executive vis-a-vis the judiciary.
Featuring pioneering work by leading experts in the field of human rights and public finance, this multidisciplinary collection will be of great interest to academics, practitioners, public servants and students working in the areas of law, human rights, economics, development and political science.

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Yes, you can access Human Rights and Public Finance by Aoife Nolan, Rory O'Connell, Colin Harvey, Aoife Nolan,Rory O'Connell,Colin Harvey in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Law & Civil Rights in Law. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Hart Publishing
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781841130118
eBook ISBN
9781782251736
Edition
1
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Civil Rights in Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Preliminary pages
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Contents
  4. Abbreviations
  5. Author Biographies
  6. Introduction
  7. Part I: Foundations
  8. 1. Public Finance, Maximum Available Resources and Human Rights
  9. 2. Putting ESR-Based Budget Analysis into Practice: Addressing the Conceptual Challenges
  10. 3. Let Them Eat Cake: Socio-Economic Rights in an Age of Austerity
  11. 4. Resourcing Rights: Combating Tax Injustice from a Human Rights Perspective
  12. Part II: Governance
  13. 5. Recovering the History of Human Rights: Public Finances and Human Rights
  14. 6. Better on the Margins? A Critique of Mainstreaming Economic and Social Rights
  15. Part III: Group-Specific Work
  16. 7. Budget for Children
  17. 8. Equality Proofing the Budget: Lessons from the Experiences of Gender Budgeting?
  18. Part IV: Analysis in Action
  19. 9. The Right to Adequate Housing: A Case Study of the Social Housing Budget in Northern Ireland
  20. 10. Assessing the Impact of the Public Spending Cuts: Taking Human Rights and Equality Seriously
  21. Index