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Author: Stephen Holmes
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780393320336
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLaying bare the folly of some of our most cherished myths, this book presents a radically illuminating view of our most precious rights.
Author: Martin Ruhs
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2013-08-25
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1400848601
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany low-income countries and development organizations are calling for greater liberalization of labor immigration policies in high-income countries. At the same time, human rights organizations and migrant rights advocates demand more equal rights for migrant workers. The Price of Rights shows why you cannot always have both. Examining labor immigration policies in over forty countries, as well as policy drivers in major migrant-receiving and migrant-sending states, Martin Ruhs finds that there are trade-offs in the policies of high-income countries between openness to admitting migrant workers and some of the rights granted to migrants after admission. Insisting on greater equality of rights for migrant workers can come at the price of more restrictive admission policies, especially for lower-skilled workers. Ruhs advocates the liberalization of international labor migration through temporary migration programs that protect a universal set of core rights and account for the interests of nation-states by restricting a few specific rights that create net costs for receiving countries. The Price of Rights analyzes how high-income countries restrict the rights of migrant workers as part of their labor immigration policies and discusses the implications for global debates about regulating labor migration and protecting migrants. It comprehensively looks at the tensions between human rights and citizenship rights, the agency and interests of migrants and states, and the determinants and ethics of labor immigration policy.
Author: Louis Henkin
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780231064453
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text explores the principal issues and developments, both in international human rights and in rights in the United States, and then compares the concepts and conditions of rights in various parts of the world. It pays particular attention to the role of US foreign policy.
Author: James Bovard
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 2016-01-05
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1250109647
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Justice Department officials seizing people's homes based on mere rumors to the IRS and its master plan to prohibit the nation's self-employed from working for themselves to the perpetrators of the Waco siege, government officials are tearing the Bill of Rights to pieces. Today's citizen is now more likely than ever to violate some unknown law or regulation and be placed at the mercy of an administrator or politician hungering for publicity. Unfortunately, the only way many government agencies can measure their "public service" is by the number of citizens they harass, hinder, restrain, or jail. James Bovard's Lost Rights provides a highly entertaining analysis of the bloated excess of government and the plight of contemporary Americans beaten into submission by a horrible parody of the Founding Fathers' dream.
Author: Susan Hanna
Publisher:
Published: 1996-09
Total Pages: 324
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnderstanding how rights to resources are assigned and how they are controlled is critical to designing and implementing effective strategies for environmental management and conservation. This book is a nontechnical, interdisciplinary introduction to the systems of rights, rules, and responsibilities that guide and control human use of the environment.
Author: Norberto Bobbio
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2017-06-12
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1509526137
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a valuable clarification and defence of human rights by Italy's leading political theorist.
Author: Charles R. Beitz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-07-28
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 0199604371
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHuman rights have become one of the most important moral concepts in global political life over the last 60 years. Charles Beitz, one of the world's leading philosophers, offers a compelling new examination of the idea of a human right.
Author: James Madison
Publisher: Books of American Wisdom
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781557091512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrinted in two colors, this leatherette edition is a guide to the first ten amendments of the U.S.
Author: William A. Edmundson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-01-23
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 1107010985
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA thoroughly updated second edition that is an accessible introduction to the history, logic, moral implications and political tendencies of the idea of rights.
Author: James E. Fleming
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2013-01-01
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 0674070747
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany have argued in recent years that the U.S. constitutional system exalts individual rights over responsibilities, virtues, and the common good. Answering the charges against liberal theories of rights, James Fleming and Linda McClain develop and defend a civic liberalism that takes responsibilities and virtues—as well as rights—seriously. They provide an account of ordered liberty that protects basic liberties stringently, but not absolutely, and permits government to encourage responsibility and inculcate civic virtues without sacrificing personal autonomy to collective determination. The battle over same-sex marriage is one of many current controversies the authors use to defend their understanding of the relationship among rights, responsibilities, and virtues. Against accusations that same-sex marriage severs the rights of marriage from responsible sexuality, procreation, and parenthood, they argue that same-sex couples seek the same rights, responsibilities, and goods of civil marriage that opposite-sex couples pursue. Securing their right to marry respects individual autonomy while also promoting moral goods and virtues. Other issues to which they apply their idea of civic liberalism include reproductive freedom, the proper roles and regulation of civil society and the family, the education of children, and clashes between First Amendment freedoms (of association and religion) and antidiscrimination law. Articulating common ground between liberalism and its critics, Fleming and McClain develop an account of responsibilities and virtues that appreciates the value of diversity in our morally pluralistic constitutional democracy.
