Human rights associations prompt high-capacity monarchies to grant controlled political amnesties.
Evidence
In March there were calls for a general amnesty for political prisoners by the Moroccan Association for Human Rights, which was associated with the Union Socialiste des Forces Populaires. In June a general amnesty was granted to over 200 political prisoners by King Hassan, including members of the “March 23 Group” and the banned Marxist-Leninist Ilal-Amam movement. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 391
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 391
- XREF: connects to: Human-rights rhetoric can relocate redress authority toward imperial overseers; Democracies install baseline rights even where capacity is low and violence high — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1303; Human rights could be institutionalized to shield market inequalities from politics. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 368 (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- Human-rights rhetoric can relocate redress authority toward imperial overseers
#expands(0.78) - Universal human rights are administered through sovereign states that decide individuals’ fates
#expands(0.76) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 664 - Ideological human-rights commitments can produce real emancipatory effects.
#expands(0.75) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 817 - Imperial rule often granted subjects more individual freedom than successor nation-states did.
#qualifies(0.75) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 824 - Democracies install baseline rights even where capacity is low and violence high
#complicates(0.74) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1303 - Human-rights language served to restrain postcolonial popular sovereignty
#complicates(0.74) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 295 - Colonial authorities aimed to manage subjects’ aspirations as a political necessity
#qualifies(0.73) - Human rights could be institutionalized to shield market inequalities from politics.
#complicates(0.72) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 368 - Many historical regimes were simultaneously partly democratic and partly monarchical.
#qualifies(0.72) — Gary Goertz, Social Science Concepts and Measurement, 1212