Populism and Human Rights
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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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
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50501 - Law
Result continuities
Project
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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
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