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European Populism and Human Rights

European Populism and Human Rights

Author: Jure Vidmar
Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
ISBN: 9789004416000
Published In: February 2020
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Netherlands ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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This volume focuses on the recent challenge posed by right-wing populism to democratic consolidation in Europe and particularly explores the legal dimensions of this challenge.

Part One attempts to define political populism and explains why it poses a challenge to democratic political order in Europe. Part Two examines the theoretical underpinnings of the populist challenge to human rights and democracy in Europe. Part Three applies this theory to concrete examples and considers case studies including an old EU Member State, two newer EU Member States and a non-EU Member State party to the ECHR.

The aim is to examin the consequences of the present populist challenge in Europe that has been marked with excessively nationalist policies in some states party to the ECHR. It is explored how the Convention rights have been undermined, but also what the limitations are of the ECHR acting as a safety-net for democratic consolidation in Europe.

Democracy and the European Public Order

Jure Vidmar

Defining Populism as a Human Rights Problem

Populism and Universal Human Rights Law

Theo van Boven

Diversity in Europe: from Pluralism to Populism?

Yvonne Donders

The Public Participant versus the Populist Government of an Illiberal Democracy

Otto Spijkers

Enough about Populism

Luigi Lonardo

How Populism Affects Human Rights Standards: Theory