Human Rights and Populism

Introduction

Questions to explore

Outline of the book

Caveat, clarification, caution

I Patterns: 'Populism' and its claimed impact on human rights in recent times

Defining 'populism'

Backslide

Backlash

II Problems: Putting the 'populist challenge' narrative in perspective

Couching the 'populist era' in some historical perspective

Enduring critiques or drawbacks of the human rights project

'Distortive'

'Disconnected'

'Delegitimised'

III Progress?: Evaluating proposals to counter populism and revitalise human rights

Reframing

'Populist backlash' as blindness

'Populist backlash' as distraction

'Populist backlash' as window (of opportunity)

Reviewing

Prescriptions advanced for revitalisating human rights

Evaluating prescriptions for revitalisating human rights

Recalculating

Are human rights still powerful?

A persistent belief in the rights frame

Great expectations?

Questions of substance versus form

Conclusion

Index

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• Direitos cívicos e cidadania
• Filosofia social e política
• Jurisprudência e temas gerais
• Direitos humanos e da lei das liberdades civis
• Direitos humanos
• Direito internacional dos direitos humanos

liberal democracy crisis;minority rights protection;political discourse analysis;universalism critique;post-truth politics;social justice advocacy;populism impact on legal frameworks