Author:
Thiel, Markus, 1973 May 9- author.
ImprintPhiladelphia : PENN/University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]
Imprint2017
Descriptionviii, 190 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Note:The Genesis and Diffusion of Internal Human Rights Policies in Europe -- Theorizing Rights Advocacy Through European CSOs -- The Fundamental Rights Agency and Platform -- Both Sides of the Story: Probing Legitimacy Through Interview Analysis -- Validating Findings Through Survey Analysis of Platform CSOs -- Social Rights and EU Market Liberalization: A Case of Neo-liberal Volatility? -- The Nexus of Internal Rights and Securitized External Border Policies.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-188) and index.
Note:Adherence to basic human rights norms has become an expected feature of states throughout the world. In Europe, the promotion and protection of human rights through national governments has been enhanced by the diversity of intergovernmental organizations committed to this cause. The latest addition to the continent's rights organizations arrived ten years ago when, based on the EU's Lisbon Treaty, the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) was created as a functional institution to highlight and improve human rights within EU member states. In contrast to other regulatory agencies in the EU, the FRA provides a research-based advisory function for EU institutions and legislation and performs a public-diplomacy function in promoting fundamental rights across EU member states. The linking of civil society with internal rights policies has yet produced very little scholarship. Markus Thiel's European Civil Society and Human Rights Advocacy not only fills this vacuum: it also offers a timely analysis in the context of Europe's proliferating human rights challenges, like the current refugee crises and the nationalist responses that geopolitical changes have provoked. European Civil Society and Human Rights Advocacy examines the interaction between the FRA and hundreds of transnational civil society organizations working with and on behalf of vulnerable populations in EU member states and probes the high normative standards of human rights attainment and transnational participatory governance in the EU.
