European Civil Society and Human Rights Advocacy / Markus Thiel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thiel, Markus, author.

Series:

Pennsylvania studies in human rights.

Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European Union. Agency for Fundamental Rights.

European Union.

Civil rights--European Union countries.

Civil rights.

Civil society--European Union countries.

Civil society.

Human rights advocacy--European Union countries.

Human rights advocacy.

Human rights--European Union countries.

Human rights.

Human Rights.

Law.

Political Science.

Local Subjects:

Human Rights.

Law.

Political Science.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Markus Thiel's European Civil Society and Human Rights Advocacy not only fills this vacuum: it also offers a timely analysis in the context of Europe's proliferating human rights challenges, like the current refugee crises and the nationalist responses that geopolitical changes have provoked. European Civil Society and Human Rights Advocacy examines the interaction between the FRA and hundreds of transnational civil society organizations working with and on behalf of vulnerable populations in EU member states and probes the high normative standards of human rights attainment and transnational participatory governance in the EU.Thiel surveys how networking among civil society organizations takes place, to what extent they are able to set the agenda or insert themselves into EU decision-making procedures, and how they are able to exploit the opportunity structure presented by the FRA's institutionalization of a voice for civil society. .

Thiel draws conclusions for the larger issues of human rights promotion, transnational citizenship, and participatory governance in the region, reflecting broadly and critically on the legitimacy of EU human rights norms through a political sociology perspective.

Adherence to basic human rights norms has become an expected feature of states throughout the world. In Europe, the promotion and protection of human rights through national governments has been enhanced by the diversity of intergovernmental organizations committed to this cause. The latest addition to the continent's rights organizations arrived ten years ago when, based on the EU's Lisbon Treaty, the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) was created as a functional institution to highlight and improve human rights within EU member states. In contrast to other regulatory agencies in the EU, the FRA provides a research-based advisory function for EU institutions and legislation and performs a public-diplomacy function in promoting fundamental rights across EU member states.The linking of civil society with internal rights policies has yet produced very little scholarship. .

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Preface

Chapter 1. The Genesis and Diffusion of Internal Human Rights Policies in Europe

Chapter 2. Theorizing Rights Advocacy Through European CSOs

Chapter 3. The Fundamental Rights Agency and Platform

Chapter 4. Both Sides of the Story: Probing Legitimacy Through Interview Analysis

Chapter 5. Validating Findings Through Survey Analysis of Platform CSOs

Chapter 6. Social Rights and EU Market Liberalization: A Case of Neoliberal Volatility?

Chapter 7. The Nexus of Internal Rights and Securitized External Border Policies

Conclusion

Appendix

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)

ISBN:

9780812294224

081229422X

OCLC:

1004882925