Toward a Political Philosophy of Human Rights
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Is there a human right to be governed democratically? And what are the considerations that might ground such a right? These are the questions raised in Joshua Cohen’s 2006 article, “Is There a Human Right to Democracy?” In this chapter, Annabelle Lever articulates her reasons for discomfort with its central claim, that while justice demands democratic government, the proper standard for human rights is something less. She explains that these reasons for discomfort are occasioned less by the thought that democracy may not be a human right than by the very significant gaps in our understanding of rights which debates about the human rights status of democracy exemplify.
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