Human Rights and the Hollow State by Helen J. Delfeld

Author:Helen J. Delfeld [Delfeld, Helen J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Civil Rights, Political Science, NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations), Human Rights
ISBN: 9780415707107
Google: 4BHfngEACAAJ
Goodreads: 18289533
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-15T09:59:23+00:00

One way to interpret this in terms of discourse is that, in the eyes of our respondents, non-governmental agencies perform many of the expected functions of government, while the government reaps much of the legitimacy associated with the protection of peoples’ rights. The discourse of governance maintains the legitimacy of formal government structures, whereas in reality it’s the NGOs that pay the expensive social service costs, actively propagating the hollow state. This shows that the idea of rights has been co-constituted with the state-as-governance model quite successfully. People in Palawan share the Western imaginary that the state should exist as the nation-state, the entity that protects its population. But unlike the external actors who shore up the hollow state, they are aware of the gap between their needs and their abilities to meet those needs—a gap that is filled by NGOs, not the state.

Figure 3.2 Perceptions of Who Actually Does Assure Rights

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