Wotipka, Christine Min

World Society and Human Rights: An Event History Analysis of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

This article starts by explaining ratification rates by time span and region, as well as rates of reservation to particular provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). Then the authors argue that nation-states are not autonomous entities but rather constructed from and influenced by world models of progress and justice set forth as universalistic scripts for authentic nation-statehood.