Free Expression and Democracy: A Comparative Analysis

Administrative / Constitutional Law

Free Expression and Democracy: A Comparative Analysis

By Kevin W. Saunders
Cambridge University Press April 2017

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ISBN-13
9781107171978
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
April 2017
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Free Expression and Democracy takes on the assumption that limits on free expression will lead to authoritarianism or at least a weakening of democracy. That hypothesis is tested by an examination of issues involving expression and their treatment in countries included on The Economist's list of fully functioning democracies. Generally speaking, other countries allow prohibitions on hate speech, limits on third-party spending on elections, and the protection of children from media influences seen as harmful. Many ban Holocaust denial and the desecration of national symbols. Yet, these other countries all remain democratic, and most of those considered rank more highly than the United States on the democracy index. This book argues that while there may be other cultural values that call for more expansive protection of expression, that protection need not reach the level present in the United States in order to protect the democratic nature of a country.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
1. The protection of free expression in a democracy
2. Varieties of expression
3. Incitement of crime
4. Hate speech
5. Holocaust denial and other false assertions of fact
6. Political party bans
7. Political campaign limitations
8. The desecration of national symbols and lese majeste
9. Defamation
10. Attacks on personal honor
11. Obscenity and child pornography
12. Children and expression
13. Criminal trials and freedom of the press
14. Government secrecy
15. A matter of choices
Index.
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