1st Edition
Human Rights and Democracy Discourse Theory and Global Rights Institutions
By Eva Erman
Copyright 2005
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Contents: The interdependence of human rights and democracy; The absence of political rights in the rights discourse; A discourse theory based on action rules of language; Legitimizing rights through democratic means; Towards an institutional design; The reflexive use of rights; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Eva Erman is Senior Lecturer at Stockholm University in Sweden.
'Eva Erman's recent book on studying global human rights institutions through a (modified) Habermasian version of discourse theory constitutes an innovative and thoughtful attempt to bridge the gap between the theoretical-normative and the empirical research on human rights in the discipline of political sciences.' Human Rights & Human Welfare
