Human Rights and Democracy - Couverture souple

Erman, Eva

 
9781138266841: Human Rights and Democracy

Synopsis

This volume explores the relationship between human rights and democracy within both the theoretical and empirical field. It is a book within the tradition of deliberative democracy, although it focuses on global institutions and human rights rather than nation-state or federalist democracy. Eva Erman problematizes the absence of political rights in the global human rights discourse from a deliberative standpoint. Starting out from and at the same time criticizing Habermas' discourse theory of law and democracy, she makes a significant contribution to a discourse theory of human rights and applies it to a global rights institution, the United Nations' Commission on Human Rights. This is an innovative study that offers tools for democratizing existing global political institutions, and is therefore suitable for philosophers, political theorists, scholars of human rights and those interested in democracy.

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À propos de l?auteur

Eva Erman is Senior Lecturer at Stockholm University in Sweden.

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9780754644866: Human Rights And Democracy: Discourse Theory And Global Rights Institutions

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0754644863 ISBN 13 :  9780754644866
Editeur : Routledge, 2005
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