ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the emergence and effects of a change within the global polity in order to understand how rights and regulation intersect at a global level, how the content of global culture changes, and how institutional processes shape orientations toward law. It provides the relationship between rights and regulation in relation to human rights in a world polity framework. The chapter provides an analysis of indigenous rights in relation to world polity theory, finding that the growth of indigenous rights does indeed represent a departure from the content of the culture of the world polity. It considers the origins of indigenous rights in relation to world polity theory's characterization of global culture. The chapter considers the extent to which the regulatory effects of emergent indigenous rights support the predictions about the institutional mechanisms through which human rights have regulatory force. The chapter focuses on international bodies, then on states, and finally on the indigenous rights movement itself.
