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Populism and Human Rights

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F48546054%3A_____%2F19%3AN0000010" target="_blank" >RIV/48546054:_____/19:N0000010 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-6265-331-3_7#citeas" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-6265-331-3_7#citeas</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-331-3_7" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-94-6265-331-3_7</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Populism and Human Rights

  • Original language description

    Populism constitutes a challenge to human rights. While populists do not usually reject human rights expressly, they embrace a rather selective and instrumental approach to them, seeking to adjust the concept to their needs. The chapter deals with a particular aspect of the populist challenge to human rights. It identifies, and refutes, three main arguments that populists conventionally use to criticize human rights. These are the security argument, which claims that human rights have to yield to security concerns; the legitimacy argument, which contends that human rights have lost legitimacy, since they have been hijacked by particular groups and agendas; and the democracy argument, which castigates human rights for favouring the interests of minorities over those of the majority. The chapter shows that all these arguments, although they have some merit, suffer from major flaws. They either present the reality in an overly simplified and incomplete way or go against some of the basic premises on which the whole system of human rights is based. Due to that, populists do not propose any meaningful alternative to the currently prevailing conception of human rights.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    C - Chapter in a specialist book

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    50501 - Law

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2019

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Book/collection name

    Netherlands Yearbook of International Law

  • ISBN

    978-94-6265-330-6

  • Number of pages of the result

    31

  • Pages from-to

    143-174

  • Number of pages of the book

    283

  • Publisher name

    T.M.C. Asser Press

  • Place of publication

    Hague

  • UT code for WoS chapter