Human Rights and Democracy

Discourse Theory and Global Rights Institutions

Eva Erman author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:15th Nov '16

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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 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.

'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

ISBN: 9781138266841

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Weight: 453g

256 pages