Realizing social rights: the material impacts of constitutional entrenchment
Realizing social rights: the material impacts of constitutional entrenchment
Using data on the constitutional protection of social rights in 195 countries from 2000-2015 and controlling for economic, political, and demographic variables, I found moderately strong evidence that the right to health leads to increased public expenditures on healthcare but mixed evidence in relation to health outcomes, limited evidence of that the right to education improves primary school enrolment levels in non-civil law jurisdictions, and no correlation between the right to social security and income inequality. Contrary to expectations, I also found that ICESCR rati cation is positively associated with declining infant mortality rates.
Health, Education, Social Security, Comparative Constitutional Law, Social Rights
313-340
Rosevear, Evan
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2017
Rosevear, Evan
5459603c-339c-4452-b091-a62f9986cf11
Rosevear, Evan
(2017)
Realizing social rights: the material impacts of constitutional entrenchment.
Contemporânea-Revista de Sociologia da UFSCar, 7 (2), .
Abstract
Using data on the constitutional protection of social rights in 195 countries from 2000-2015 and controlling for economic, political, and demographic variables, I found moderately strong evidence that the right to health leads to increased public expenditures on healthcare but mixed evidence in relation to health outcomes, limited evidence of that the right to education improves primary school enrolment levels in non-civil law jurisdictions, and no correlation between the right to social security and income inequality. Contrary to expectations, I also found that ICESCR rati cation is positively associated with declining infant mortality rates.
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Published date: 2017
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Health, Education, Social Security, Comparative Constitutional Law, Social Rights
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/482914
ISSN: 2316-1329
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