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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Human Rights and Public Finance: Budgets and the Promotion of Economic and Social Rights by Edited by Aoife Nolan Edited by Rory OConnell Edited by Professor Colin Harvey
This edited collection addresses an important theme in contemporary human rights law and practice - the linkage between public finance particularly budget decisions and the realisation of economic and social rights. While much academic and political debate on economic and social rights implementation has focused on the role of the courts this work places the spotlight squarely on those organs of government that have the primary responsibility and the greatest capacity for giving effect to such rights: namely the elected branches of government. The major actors considered in this book are politicians public servants and civil society and the book makes a major contribution to remedying the current imbalance in attention paid by economic and social rights scholars to these groups.Featuring pioneering work by leading experts in the field of human rights and public finance this multidisciplinary edited collection will be of great interest to academics practitioners students and public servants working in the areas of law human rights economics development and political science.