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Human rights in a time of populism : challenges and responses / edited by Gerald L. Neuman, Harvard Law School, Massachusetts.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: UK, CUP, 2020.Description: 277 pISBN:
  • 9781108485494
  • 9781108707206
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323 NEU.H
Contents:
Populist Threats to the International Human Rights System / Gerald L. Neuman -- U.S. Human Rights Policy and the Trump Administration / Stephen Pomper and Daniel Levine-Spound -- Rule-of-Law Rights and Populist Impatience / Jeremy Waldron -- Populism and Human Rights in Poland / Wojciech Sadurski -- Representation, Paternalism, and Exclusion : The Divergent Impacts of the AKP's Populism on Human Rights in Turkey / Jamie O'Connell -- The Legal Architecture of Populism : Exploring Antagonists in Venezuela and Colombia / Helena Alviar García -- Penal Populism in Emerging Markets : Human Rights and Democracy in the Age of Strongmen / Richard Javad Heydarian -- The Populist Threat to Democracy in Myanmar / Yee Htun -- In Defense of Democratic Populism / Douglas A. Johnson -- Populism and International Human Rights Law Institutions : A Survival Guide / Laurence R. Helfer -- Human Rights Responses to the Populist Challenge / Gerald L. Neuman
Summary: "The twin shocks of the Brexit referendum and then Donald Trump have added greater urgency to efforts to understand the effects and trajectory of populism. Although the consequences of these events may be far-reaching in many fields, one important inquiry concerns the impact of populism on human rights and on the international system for their protection. That topic, which has attracted less attention from political scientists, provides the focus for this book"--
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Book Book Campus Library Kariavattom Campus Library Kariavattom 323 HUM.M (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available UCL33735
Book Book Dept. of Law Processing Center Dept. of Law 323 NEU.H (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available LAW5665

Includes papers presented at a conference "convened for the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School ... to explore the relationship between populism and human rights" -- ECIP Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Populist Threats to the International Human Rights System / Gerald L. Neuman -- U.S. Human Rights Policy and the Trump Administration / Stephen Pomper and Daniel Levine-Spound -- Rule-of-Law Rights and Populist Impatience / Jeremy Waldron -- Populism and Human Rights in Poland / Wojciech Sadurski -- Representation, Paternalism, and Exclusion : The Divergent Impacts of the AKP's Populism on Human Rights in Turkey / Jamie O'Connell -- The Legal Architecture of Populism : Exploring Antagonists in Venezuela and Colombia / Helena Alviar García -- Penal Populism in Emerging Markets : Human Rights and Democracy in the Age of Strongmen / Richard Javad Heydarian -- The Populist Threat to Democracy in Myanmar / Yee Htun -- In Defense of Democratic Populism / Douglas A. Johnson -- Populism and International Human Rights Law Institutions : A Survival Guide / Laurence R. Helfer -- Human Rights Responses to the Populist Challenge / Gerald L. Neuman

"The twin shocks of the Brexit referendum and then Donald Trump have added greater urgency to efforts to understand the effects and trajectory of populism. Although the consequences of these events may be far-reaching in many fields, one important inquiry concerns the impact of populism on human rights and on the international system for their protection. That topic, which has attracted less attention from political scientists, provides the focus for this book"--

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