Human Rights and Statistics: Getting the Record Straight. (book reviews)

These two volumes in the new Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights Series could hardly be more different; but taken together, they nicely summarize the current state of theory and method in the study and advocacy of human rights.

This is a field in its infancy; indeed, it may be premature to call it a "field" in social science at all. Not only is it new (the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, upon which most subsequent development has relied, was adopted only in 1948, and as serious American preoccupations, human rights are no older than the Carter administration) but its ...

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