Book contents
- 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
3 - Rule-of-Law Rights and Populist Impatience
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Book contents
- 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
Human rights are a mixed bag, and populist antipathy towards human rights is not spread evenly across its contents. The idea of a human right as such is too abstract to be sustained as an object of political suspicion. Usually it is some subset of human rights or some particular aspect of human rights practice that excites critical attention from populist politicians and the citizens who support them. The subset of rights that I want to concentrate on I will call “Rule-of-Law rights.” By that I mean the cluster of rights in each of the main human rights instruments that protect Rule-of-Law values, particularly procedural values.
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