TY  - GEN
AU  - Alfadhel, Khalifa A.
TI  - The right to democracy in international law : : between procedure, substance an the philosophy of John Rawls 
SN  - 9781138294431
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - I. Rawls, John, 1921-2002.
KW  - Rights to democracy
KW  - International law and human rights
KW  - Democractization
KW  - International law
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- The Refah principle and democratic theory -- Limitations - Structure and methodology -- The right to democracy in international customary law -- Introduction -- The right to democracy in traditional international customary law -- The right to democracy in modern international customary law: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- The legal value of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- Article 21: between travaux preparatoires and substance -- A monitoring mechanism? -- Conclusion -- The right to democracy in international conventions - the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights -- Introduction - Context, background and derogations -- The Human Rights Committee -- Article 25: the right to political participation -- A right of citizens -- The right to vote -- The right to stand -- Conclusion -- The substance right to democracy in international law -- Introduction -- Procedural shortcomings -- The role of international organizations -- The role of regional organizations and the European Court of Human Rights -- Conclusion: substance or procedure? -- Democracy and the citizen in the philosophy of John Rawls -- Introduction -- Liberty behind a veil of ignorance -- The reasonable citizen -- The overlapping consensus -- Public reason -- An escape from liberty -- Conclusion -- Conclusions -- Summary -- The law: incomplete procedural understanding of democracy -- Democratic theory: needs to be extended
N2  - This book explores the right to democracy in international law and contemporary democratic theory, asking whether international law encompasses a substantive or procedural understanding of the notion. The book considers whether there can be considered to be a basis for the right to democracy in international customary law through an evaluation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and whether the relevant provisions might be interpreted as forming customary law. The book then goes on to explore the relevant provisions in international treaties including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights before looking at the role of regional organizations and human rights regimes including the European Court of Human Rights and the Arab human right regime. Khalifa A. Alfadhel draws on the work of John Rawls in order to put forward a theoretical basis for the right to democracy
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