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Responding to authoritarian populism at the European Court of Human Rights : a calibrated framework / Alain Zysset, University of Glasgow.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zysset, Alain, Author.
- Series:
- Studies on international courts and tribunals.
- Studies on international courts and tribunals
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- European Court of Human Rights.
- European Court of Human Rights--Cases.
- Human rights--Europe.
- Human rights.
- Rule of law--Europe.
- Rule of law.
- Authoritarianism.
- Populism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 263 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- The book offers the first systematic account of the European Court of Human Rights' actual and potential response to the wave of authoritarian populism consolidating across Council of Europe states. It develops an original framework combining philosophical, social-scientific and legal analysis. The book first develops the claim that authoritarian populism is characterised by a severe distortion of democracy and a corrupt rule of law. Drawing on these insights, the book points to the infrastructural erosion of Convention rights, highlighting the limits of the Court's 'democratic society' in the media, judicial, and electoral domains. Taking into account the Court's subsidiary position, the book demonstrates how the Court's proportionality test can and should be enhanced to better detect and respond to infrastructural erosion across these areas.
- Contents:
- Authoritarian Populism : An Insidious Threat to the Courts Democratic Society
- Populism : distorting democracy and corrupting the rule of law
- The Courts Democratic Society : Preliminaries
- The Effects of Populist Rule : An Overview
- Deliberative Pluralism and the Media
- The Rule of Law and the Independence of Justice
- The Electoral Eco-System
- Proportionality as Anti-Populist Detector and Responder.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Feb 2026).
- ISBN:
- 1-009-37798-1
- 1-009-37795-7
- 1-009-37793-0
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