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- Human Rights in a Time of Populism
- Human Rights in a Time of Populism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Populist Threats to the International Human Rights System
- 2 US Human Rights Policy and the Trump Administration
- 3 Rule-of-Law Rights and Populist Impatience
- 4 Populism and Human Rights in Poland
- 5 The Legal Architecture of Populism
- 6 Representation, Paternalism, and Exclusion
- 7 Penal Populism in Emerging Markets
- 8 The Populist Threat to Democracy in Myanmar
- 9 In Defense of Democratic Populism
- 10 Populism and International Human Rights Law Institutions
- 11 Human Rights Responses to the Populist Challenge
- Index
- References
7 - Penal Populism in Emerging Markets
Human Rights and Democracy in the Age of Strongmen
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 April 2020
- Human Rights in a Time of Populism
- Human Rights in a Time of Populism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Populist Threats to the International Human Rights System
- 2 US Human Rights Policy and the Trump Administration
- 3 Rule-of-Law Rights and Populist Impatience
- 4 Populism and Human Rights in Poland
- 5 The Legal Architecture of Populism
- 6 Representation, Paternalism, and Exclusion
- 7 Penal Populism in Emerging Markets
- 8 The Populist Threat to Democracy in Myanmar
- 9 In Defense of Democratic Populism
- 10 Populism and International Human Rights Law Institutions
- 11 Human Rights Responses to the Populist Challenge
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter explores the mutually constitutive relationship between the emergence of “penal populism” in fledgling democracies such as the Philippines, on one hand, and the erosion of democratic values and institutional protection of as well as societal respect for human rights, on the other. It contextualizes this phenomenon within the broader landscape of democratic retreat across “emerging market democracies” – namely rapidly growing economies with a relatively robust democratic tradition and, at least, more than a decade of competitive electoral practice – where growing dissatisfaction with unresponsive democratic institutions due to bureaucratic paralysis has gone hand in hand with the resurgence of so-called Asian values. The chapter argues that the rise of Filipino strongman Rodrigo Duterte is not only reflective of a systemic deadlock within Philippine democracy, but also the upshot of a worldwide backlash against enlightenment values. The way forward requires structural reforms in the penal system, not only to ensure the proper dispensation of justice, but also to revive public confidence in and support for due process and human rights.
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- Human Rights in a Time of PopulismChallenges and Responses, pp. 130 - 163Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020