REVERSING THE WAVE: THE PERVERSE EFFECTS OF ECONOMIC LIBERALISM ON HUMAN RIGHTS

• Authors: Korkut Umut
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article takes the conservative shift in Polish politics under PiS as an example and argues that the failure of the liberal economy could end up reversing the fast-forward wave in human rights. And because Poland is a relatively new member of the EU, the article also develops the argument that such a reversal in the new member countries could make the European Union's (EU) acquis irrelevant for further democratisation. Therefore, the article first explains how the failure of the economic liberalism of the neo-liberal market economy paves the way for the success of conservative political parties. It then raises the question of why political liberalism, promoted by the EU's human rights acquis, is also a target for the opponents of the market economy. The article concludes with a discussion of current Polish politics in the aftermath of the October 2007 elections.

Keywords

EN

EU; HUMAN RIGHTS; LIBERAL AUTHORS:ISM; PIS; POLAND

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 45
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 571-591
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Korkut Umut

• Umut Korkut, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; http://dlib.lib.cas.cz/4725/

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09CZAAAA067821