Date: 2022
Type: Book
Human dignity and democracy in Europe : synergies, tensions and crises
Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022
BEDFORD, Daniel, DUPRE, Catherine, HALMAI, Gábor, KAPOTAS, Panos (editor/s), BEDFORD, Daniel, DUPRE, Catherine, HALMAI, Gábor, KAPOTAS, Panos, Human dignity and democracy in Europe : synergies, tensions and crises, Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/74383
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This collection identifies and discuss the connections between human dignity and democracy from theoretical, substantive, and comparative perspectives. Drawing on detailed analyses of national and transnational law, it provides timely insights into the uses of human dignity to promote and challenge ideas of identity and solidarity.
Table of Contents:
-- Introduction to Human Dignity and Democracy in Europe
-- PART I THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS
1 Judicial activity/democratic activity: the democratising effects of dignity
2 Human dignity and democracy in Europe: commitments, connections and red lines
3 Subsidiarity and human dignity: democracy, authority and knowledge
4 Democratic transformations in the United Kingdom: the potential of human dignity
-- PART II IDENTITY
5 On the dilemma between human dignity and national identity
6 Human dignity as status politics
7 The right to citizenship and human dignity
8 Discourses of collective dignity, the state of exception and the twilight of the rule of law: the case of Poland and beyond
-- PART III SOLIDARITY
9 The decline of human dignity and solidarity through the misuse of constitutional identity: the case of Hungary since 2010
10 Bringing human dignity back to life: the case of austerity measures in a comparative perspective
11 Dignity at the margins: the contestatory dynamic of the principle of human dignity
-- Conclusion: human dignity and the future of European democracy
-- Index
Additional information:
Publication Date: 17 March 2022
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/74383
Full-text via DOI: 10.4337/9781789902846
ISBN: 9781789902839; 9781789902846
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
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