Democracy, human rights and religiosity in the Middle East
LE3 .A278 1997
1997
Conley, Marsh
Acadia University
Master of Arts
Masters
Political Science
Politics
The purpose of the thesis is to establish a correlation between human rights and democracy, and between human rights and religiosity. The two-fold hypothesis posits that states which demonstrate a low degree of democracy also exhibit a high number of human rights abuses, and that states which demonstrate a high degree of religiosity also exhibit a high number of human rights abuses. To this end, five indicators are used for each of the three subjects. The indicators selected deal specifically with either human rights, religiosity, or democracy. Each state is assigned a score for each of the indicators, which are grouped into the three subject areas. The indicators are taken predominantly from Charles Humana's work, as well as that of the United States Department of State. Upon this basis, the scores are then placed on three continua, whereupon they are ranked relative to each other. The continuum for democracy is then compared to the continuum for human rights, and the continuum for religiosity is then compared to the continuum for human rights. The surmised correlations between both human rights and democracy and between human rights and religiosity are valid.
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