Populism and Human Rights in a Turbulent Era

Buch | Hardcover

206 Seiten

2023
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80220-953-2 (ISBN)

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How can we interpret and respond to the rise of populist regimes that infringe on human rights? This incisive book analyses illiberal, repressive, and patriarchal logics of rule, identifying critical catalysts in the meteoric growth of populist agendas. Contributors scrutinise the records of authoritarian and nationalist leaders in Brazil, Hungary, India, Mexico, the Philippines, Poland, Turkey and the United States.

This topical book treats populism as a multi-faceted, performative phenomenon that claims to improve social rights while suppressing civil liberties and substitutes the promise of cultural citizenship for the loss of self-determination in a turbulent era of globalization. The chapters bring attention to understudied dimensions of populism including gender dynamics, bureaucratic politics, and the co-construction of foreign policy. Going beyond normative appeals to human rights, this innovative book urges advocates to contest populism at the national, social, and ideological levels in novel ways.

Interweaving historical, political, comparative, statistical and discursive analysis, this interdisciplinary book will be vital to students and scholars of human rights, comparative politics, democracy, sociology and international studies. It will also prove invaluable to policymakers looking to address future populist regimes.

Edited by Alison Brysk, Distinguished Professor, Department of Global Studies and Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, US

Contents:

1 Introduction: populism and the politics of human rights 1
Alison Brysk
2 Nationalism and conservative populism in the CEE bloc:
a political economy and historical institutional approach 12
Oldrich Krpec and Carol Wise
3 When do opponents of LGBT human rights mobilize in
Europe? Explaining political participation in times of populism 44
Phillip M. Ayoub and Douglas Page
4 Mexico: populism versus feminism 68
Kathleen Bruhn
5 “Local and national”: the rise of populism and foreign
policy as a two-dimensional process in Turkey 87
Şevin Gülfer Sağnıç
6 Democratic backsliding and threats to human rights in
Duterte’s Philippines 105
Sharmila Parmanand
7 Administrative backsliding in India 126
Satyajit Singh
8 Gendering populism: the rise of right-wing populism and
anti-gender politics in Brazil 148
Vitória Moreira
9 Human rights under American populism 166
Gershon Shafir

Index 191

Erscheinungsdatum	16.05.2023
Reihe/Serie	In a Turbulent Era series
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-80220-953-0 / 1802209530
ISBN-13	978-1-80220-953-2 / 9781802209532
Zustand	Neuware