Paradoxes and possibilities: Domestic human rights policy in context

Human Rights in the United States: Beyond Exceptionalism

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-22

  Libal, Kathryn ^a   Hertel, Shareen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511842269.002     Document Type: Chapter

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