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Human Rights Without Democracy?

Reconciling Freedom with Equality
BuchGebunden
200 Seiten
Englisch
Berghahn Bookserschienen am01.12.2012
Do Human Rights truly serve the people? Should citizens themselves decide democratically of what those rights consist? Or is it a decision for experts and the courts? The author argues that Human Rights must be established democratically.mehr
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KlappentextDo Human Rights truly serve the people? Should citizens themselves decide democratically of what those rights consist? Or is it a decision for experts and the courts? The author argues that Human Rights must be established democratically.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-0-85745-786-8
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Erscheinungsjahr2012
Erscheinungsdatum01.12.2012
Seiten200 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 145 mm, Höhe 222 mm, Dicke 14 mm
Gewicht392 g
Artikel-Nr.18918043

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
PrefacePart I: The Notion of Human Rights Prior to 1789Chapter 1. The Prehistory and Context of Human Rights The Concept of Human DignityCharters of Liberties and the Social ContractChapter 2. First Notions of Human RightsHobbesLockeRousseauKantChapter 3. Human Rights, Morals, and LawNormativity and RealityNatural Law and Positive LawAutonomy, Virtue, and CoercionPart II: Human Rights from 1789 to 1989Chapter 4. From Human Rights to Positive LawNationalizationInternationalizationChapter 5. Human Rights, the State, and DemocracyThe Role of the StateDemocratic Legitimacy for Human RightsChapter 6. Politics and LawPolitics and Law at the National LevelThe Ambivalence of InternationalizationPart III: The Crisis in Human Rights Since 1989Chapter 7. The Cold WarEast-West ConfrontationNew InterventionismChapter 8. Moralizing Human RightsPolitics and Law Switch RolesAn Instrument of Liberation becomes Tool of DisciplineChapter 9. Natural Right and Imposed Concepts of ManExpertise Ousts DemocracyThe Revolutionary Aspect of Human RightsPart IV: OutlookChapter 10. Perspectives for Democratic LegitimacyResponsibility at the National LevelMitigating Discourse on Human RightsChapter 11. Universality and RegionalizationDifferentiation in the WestFreedom and EqualityChapter 12. Repercussions from the Cold WarReligion versus Human RightsFrom Locke to KantNotesBibliographyIndexmehr

Autor

Gret Haller is a lawyer, politician, and author. In 1987 she became a member of Swiss parliament and in 1993/94 was its Speaker, as well as a member of the Parliamentary Assemblies of the Council of Europe and OSCE. She has served as Swiss ambassador to the Council of Europe and from 1996 to 2000 was OSCE Human Rights Ombudsperson for Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo. The University of St. Gallen awarded her an honorary doctorate for her work in human rights. Her publications include Limits of Atlanticism: Perceptions of State, Nation and Religion in Europe and the United States (2007) and Menschenrechte und Volkssouveränität in Europa. Gerichte als Vormund der Demokratie? (with Klaus Günther adn Ulfrid Neumann, Campus Verlag 2011).