Full Description
This collection identifies and discusses 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 uses of human dignity to promote and challenge ideas of identity and solidarity.
Highlighting human dignity's significance for inclusive democracy, the book's thirteen chapters underline how threats to human dignity can also be a danger to democracy itself. Critical analysis of the commitment to protect the dignity of all human beings following the rise of nationalism, illiberalism and identity politics are thoroughly reviewed. The volume further addresses urgent questions about today's democratic societies in the context of Europe's multiple crises.
Written in an accessible style, this innovative book will be an excellent resource for both scholars of human dignity and human rights law, European law and politics, as well as non-experts looking to further their understanding of the topic.
Contents
Contents:
Introduction to Human Dignity and Democracy in Europe 1
Daniel Bedford and Catherine Dupré
PART I THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS
1 Judicial activity/democratic activity: the democratising
effects of dignity 19
Erin Daly
2 Human dignity and democracy in Europe: commitments,
connections and red lines 36
Catherine Dupré
3 Subsidiarity and human dignity: democracy, authority and
knowledge 60
Stephen Riley
4 Democratic transformations in the United Kingdom: the
potential of human dignity 77
Daniel Bedford
PART II IDENTITY
5 On the dilemma between human dignity and national identity 103
Cesare Pinelli
6 Human dignity as status politics 119
Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez
7 The right to citizenship and human dignity 137
Maria Dicosola
8 Discourses of collective dignity, the state of exception and
the twilight of the rule of law: the case of Poland and beyond 155
Przemyslaw Tacik
PART III SOLIDARITY
9 The decline of human dignity and solidarity through the
misuse of constitutional identity: the case of Hungary since 2010 177
Gábor Halmai and Nóra Chronowski
10 Bringing human dignity back to life: the case of austerity
measures in a comparative perspective 200
Antonia Baraggia
11 Dignity at the margins: the contestatory dynamic of the
principle of human dignity 225
Cólm Ó Cinnéide
Conclusion: human dignity and the future of European democracy 248
Gábor Halmai and Panos Kapotas
Index
