New Arrival Responding to Authoritarian Populism at the European Court of Human Rights: A Calibrated Framework

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Responding to Authoritarian Populism at the European Court of Human Rights: A Calibrated Framework

By Alain Zysset
New Arrival Cambridge University Press March 2026

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ISBN-13
9781009377966
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
March 2026
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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The book offers the first systematic account of the European Court of Human Rights' actual and potential response to the wave of authoritarian populism consolidating across Council of Europe states. It develops an original framework combining philosophical, social-scientific and legal analysis. The book first develops the claim that authoritarian populism is characterised by a severe distortion of democracy and a corrupt rule of law. Drawing on these insights, the book points to the infrastructural erosion of Convention rights, highlighting the limits of the Court's 'democratic society' in the media, judicial, and electoral domains. Taking into account the Court's subsidiary position, the book demonstrates how the Court's proportionality test can and should be enhanced to better detect and respond to infrastructural erosion across these areas.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Authoritarian populism: an insidious threat to the court's 'democratic society'
3. Populism: distorting democracy and corrupting the rule of law
4. The court's 'democratic society': preliminaries
5. The effects of populist rule: an overview
6. Deliberative pluralism and the media
7. The rule of law and the independence of justice
8. The electoral eco-system
9. Proportionality as anti-populist detector and responder
10. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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