Do Rights Work? Law, Activism, and the Employment Guarantee Scheme
Do Rights Work? Law, Activism, and the Employment Guarantee Scheme
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权利有用吗？
DOI：
10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.11.012
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发表时间：
2010
影响因子：
6.9
通讯作者：
A. Joshi
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作者：
A. Joshi
最近，“基于权利的方法”为实现社会变革提供了一条有希望的途径。然而，我们在国家提供的合法可执行的社会经济权利方面几乎没有经验。本文考察了法律赋予社会经济权利的少数例子之一——有限的“工作权”——在印度的一个邦以就业保障计划的形式存在了25年多。本文认为，法律基础不会自动使穷人获得权利；然而，法律权利对亲穷人的活动组织有重要的间接影响，包括动员成员、保护活动人士免受任意行动和改变公共话语。
Recent, “rights-based approaches” offer a promising route for bringing about social change. However, we have little experience with state-provided legally enforceable socio-economic rights. This paper examines one of the few examples of a legally granted socio-economic right—a limited “right to work”—that has existed in one state of India for over 25 years in the form of the Employment Guarantee Scheme. The paper argues that legal underpinnings do not automatically enable the poor to obtain rights; however, legal rights have important indirect effects for pro-poor activist organizations including mobilizing membership, protecting activists from arbitrary action, and shifting public discourse.