Deliberative democracy and human rights [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Harold Hongju Koh and Ronald C. Slye

• Autore: Koh Harold
• Pubblicazione: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (326 p.)
• Disciplina: 323
• Soggetto topico: Democracy; Democracy - United States; Human rights; Human rights - United States; Representative government and representation
• Altri autori: KohHarold Hongju <1954-> SlyeRonald
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Deliberative Democracy and Human Rights: An Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Death of a Public Intellectual -- Chapter 2 Personal Rights and Public Space -- Chapter 3 In the Beginning Was the Deed -- Chapter 4 Autonomy and Consequences -- Chapter 5 On Philosophy and Human Rights -- Chapter 6 The Moral Reading and the Majoritarian Premise -- Chapter 7 Constitutionalism, Democracy, and State Decay -- Chapter 8 Constitutionalism and Democracy -- Chapter 9 Group Aspirations and Democratic Politics -- Chapter 10 Creating the Conditions for Democracy -- Chapter 11 Power Under State Terror -- Chapter 12 Deliberation, Disagreement, and Voting -- Chapter 13 Deliberative Democracy and Majority Rule: Reply to Waldron -- Chapter 14 The Epistemic Theory of Democracy Revisited -- Chapter 15 Democracy and Philosophy: A Reply to Stotzky and Waldron -- Chapter 16 Punishment and the Rule of Law -- Chapter 17 From Dictatorship to Democracy: The Role of Transitional Justice -- Chapter 18 Dictatorship and Punishment: A Reply to Scanlon and Teitel -- Chapter 19 Human Rights and Democracy in Practice: The Challenge of Accountability -- Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In this important collection of writings, leading legal and political thinkers address a wide array of issues that confront societies undergoing a transition to democratic rule. Bridging the gap between theory and practice in international human rights law and policy, the contributors continue discussions that were begun with the late Argentine philosopher-lawyer Carlos Santiago Nino, then extend those conversations in new directions inspired by their own and Nino's work. The book focuses on some of the key questions that confront the international human rights movement today. What is the moral justification for the concept and content of universal human rights? What is the relationship among nation-building, constitutionalism, and democracy? What are the political implications for a conception of universal human rights? What is the relationship between moral principles and political practice? How should a society confront what Kant called radical evil? And how does a successor regime justly and practically hold a prior regime accountable for gross violations of human rights?
• Altri titoli varianti: Deliberative democracy & human rights
• Titolo autorizzato: Deliberative democracy and human rights
• ISBN: 0-585-35356-5; 1-281-72909-4; 9786611729097; 0-300-12873-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777861303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II