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The Human Right to Democracy : A Critical Evaluation / Anita Horn.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Ideen & ArgumentePublisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 121 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110628500
  • 9783110629101
  • 9783110628562
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 341.481 23
LOC classification:
  • K3240 .H676 2019
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Mapping the debate -- 2. Political conceptions: top down -- 3. Moral conceptions: bottom up -- 4. An alternative perspective on the human right to democracy -- References -- Index
Summary: The Human Right to Democracy is the first major study to offer a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the debate. It reconstructs the relevant positions in that debate, identifies the key points of disagreement, and proposes an understanding of the human right to democracy that might form the basis of a wide consensus. The book rejects the idea of a comprehensive right to democratic institutions, and instead argues for a minimal “human right to democracy” which is best understood as an individual’s right to voice. The human right to voice is a right, enjoyed by any individual independently of his or her place of residence or nationality, to be heard and supported in cases of severe injustice that is tolerated or condoned by the political community or polity of which the individual is a member. By bringing together human rights discourse and democratic theory, as well as taking into account practical politics, this study broadens the scope of the debatefrom a sometimes overly-narrow focus. The book is of interest not only to political philosophers, but also to international lawyers, diplomats, representatives of civil society, human rights activists, and specialists in development economics.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Mapping the debate -- 2. Political conceptions: top down -- 3. Moral conceptions: bottom up -- 4. An alternative perspective on the human right to democracy -- References -- Index

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The Human Right to Democracy is the first major study to offer a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the debate. It reconstructs the relevant positions in that debate, identifies the key points of disagreement, and proposes an understanding of the human right to democracy that might form the basis of a wide consensus. The book rejects the idea of a comprehensive right to democratic institutions, and instead argues for a minimal “human right to democracy” which is best understood as an individual’s right to voice. The human right to voice is a right, enjoyed by any individual independently of his or her place of residence or nationality, to be heard and supported in cases of severe injustice that is tolerated or condoned by the political community or polity of which the individual is a member. By bringing together human rights discourse and democratic theory, as well as taking into account practical politics, this study broadens the scope of the debatefrom a sometimes overly-narrow focus. The book is of interest not only to political philosophers, but also to international lawyers, diplomats, representatives of civil society, human rights activists, and specialists in development economics.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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