International law, constitutional law, and public support for torture
The human rights movement has spent considerable energy developing and promoting the adoption of both international and domestic legal prohibitions against torture. Empirical scholarship testing the effectiveness of these prohibitions using observational data, however, has produced mixed results. In...
Main Authors: | Adam S Chilton, Mila Versteeg |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2016-03-01
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Series: | Research & Politics |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2053168016636413 |
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