Determinants of Compliance Difficulties among ‘Good Compliers’: Implementation of International Human Rights Rulings in the Czech Republic

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Result on the web

<a href="https://academic.oup.com/ejil/article/29/2/397/5057068" target="_blank" >https://academic.oup.com/ejil/article/29/2/397/5057068</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chy028" target="_blank" >10.1093/ejil/chy028</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Determinants of Compliance Difficulties among ‘Good Compliers’: Implementation of International Human Rights Rulings in the Czech Republic

Original language description

The aim of this article is to explore factors that account for compliance difficulties that may eventually result in a variable level of implementation of the rulings of the European Court of Human Rights and the United Nations Human Rights Committee. We do so by focusing on the high-cost rulings requiring complex legislative measures rendered against the Czech Republic, which ranks among the best compliers among Central and Eastern European countries as well as overall. Our study shows that the level of compliance achieved depends on a repeated balancing exercise, in which domestic political actors balance domestic political costs of compliance against international reputational costs of non-compliance. Subsequently, we argue that the lapse of time is critical in understanding the compliance processes as, sometimes, even a short moment of time, when domestic political costs of compliance become lower than international reputational costs of non-compliance, may create a ‘window of opportunity’ for adopting legislation that is necessary for implementing the given rulings of international human rights bodies. Pro-compliance actors then have to take full advantage of such ‘windows of opportunity’. If they fail to do so, this window may close for a long time, if not forever.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50501 - Law

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA16-09415S" target="_blank" >GA16-09415S: Beyond Compliance – Domestic Implementation of International Human Rights Case Law</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

The European Journal of International Law

ISSN

0938-5428

e-ISSN

1464-3596

Volume of the periodical

29

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

29

Pages from-to

397-425

UT code for WoS article

000439818600004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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