Domestic politics and international human rights tribunals : the problem of compliance / Courtney Hillebrecht , University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-182) and index.

Human rights tribunals and the challenge of compliance -- Explaining compliance with human rights tribunals -- Domestic institutions and patterns of compliance -- Compliance as a signal of states' human rights commitments : Uribe's Columbia -- Leveraging international law's legitimacy to change policies : compliance and domestic policy promotion in Argentina and Portugal -- The bitter pill of compliance : preferences for human rights, democracy, and the rule of law -- Compliance failures : Russia, Italy and Brazil and the politics of non-compliance -- Conclusion : the European and Inter-American courts in context.