Populism and Human Rights

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Populism and Human Rights

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Populism and Human Rights

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50501 - Law

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2019

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Netherlands Yearbook of International Law

ISBN

978-94-6265-330-6

Počet stran výsledku

31

Strana od-do

143-174

Počet stran knihy

283

Název nakladatele

T.M.C. Asser Press

Místo vydání

Hague

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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