Human Dignity and Democracy in Europe

Edited by Daniel Bedford, Senior Lecturer, Portsmouth Law School, University of Portsmouth, Catherine Dupré, Associate Professor, Law School, University of Exeter, UK, Gábor Halmai, Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law, Law Department, European University Institute, Florence, Italy and Panos Kapotas, Senior Lecturer, Portsmouth Law School, University of Portsmouth, UK

Contents:

Introduction to Human Dignity and Democracy in Europe 1
Daniel Bedford and Catherine Dupré

PART I THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS
1 Judicial activity/democratic activity: the democratising
effects of dignity 19
Erin Daly
2 Human dignity and democracy in Europe: commitments,
connections and red lines 36
Catherine Dupré
3 Subsidiarity and human dignity: democracy, authority and
knowledge 60
Stephen Riley
4 Democratic transformations in the United Kingdom: the
potential of human dignity 77
Daniel Bedford

PART II IDENTITY
5 On the dilemma between human dignity and national identity 103
Cesare Pinelli
6 Human dignity as status politics 119
Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez
7 The right to citizenship and human dignity 137
Maria Dicosola
8 Discourses of collective dignity, the state of exception and
the twilight of the rule of law: the case of Poland and beyond 155
Przemyslaw Tacik

PART III SOLIDARITY
9 The decline of human dignity and solidarity through the
misuse of constitutional identity: the case of Hungary since 2010 177
Gábor Halmai and Nóra Chronowski
10 Bringing human dignity back to life: the case of austerity
measures in a comparative perspective 200
Antonia Baraggia
11 Dignity at the margins: the contestatory dynamic of the
principle of human dignity 225
Cólm Ó Cinnéide
Conclusion: human dignity and the future of European democracy 248
Gábor Halmai and Panos Kapotas

Index