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4 - Populism and Human Rights in Poland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2020

By
Wojciech Sadurski
Edited by
Gerald L. Neuman
Gerald L. Neuman
Affiliation:
Harvard Law School, Massachusetts
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Summary

This chapter examines how the electoral victories of the populist Law and Justice Party in Poland were followed by legal changes dismantling institutional checks on government and eroding a number of individual civil and political rights, including freedom of speech and assembly. This case study tends to show that there is a dynamic built into illiberal populism that eventually renders it antithetical to democratic rules of the game.

Keywords

Populismhuman rightsLaw and Justice Party (PiS)democracypopulist constitutionalismPolandjudicial independencefreedom of speechprivacyrefugees’ rights
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Human Rights in a Time of Populism
Challenges and Responses
 , pp. 60 - 80
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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