Words Matter. But Rights Matter More

Words matter!

©FSRH J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2010: 36(2) Background What have the Royal Society of Health – 350 years old this year – the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care and the Department of Health’s (DH) new campaign, ‘Sex. Worth Talking About’, got in common? The Royal Society was set up to assist and promote the accumulation of knowledge, promote clarity of expression, and d...

HIV now: why human rights matter more than ever

Received 19 November 2013; Accepted 19 November 2013; Published 10 December 2013 Copyright: – 2013 Beyrer C; licensee International AIDS Society. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium...

Do Constitutional Rights Matter?∗

The critique of constitutions as mere parchment barriers is as old as the practice of writing them down. Yet states put a good deal of energy into drafting constitutions and some, inevitably, do so with the intention of abiding by their provisions. The purpose of the following article is to explore this possibility. I develop a theory of constitutional enforcement and test it using data spannin...

Media Matter: But "Old" Media May Matter More Than "New" Media.

Online Appendix Do Constitutional Rights Matter?

The following document contains supplementary information for the article “Do Constitutional Rights Matter? The Relationship between De Jure and De Facto Human Rights Protection.” This information is organized into three sections. The first provides a description of the covariates included in the analysis and summary statistics for the data used in the article. The second section provides a ful...