Rights as a Claim and a Resource
Instead of thinking of judicially asserted rights as accomplished social facts or moral imperatives, they must be thought of, on the one hand, as authoritatively articulated goals of public policy, and on the other, as political resources of unknown value in the hands of those who want to alter the course of public policy. Stuart Scheingold, The Politics of Rights
[…] So how about Easton? (This version of his famous chart comes from the 1957 World Politics article). Same focus on decisions, same separation of inputs and outputs, same conflation of decisions with policies announced as well as with policies implemented, as opposed to treating rights as a claim and a resource. […]
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