The governance of EU fundamental rights / Mark Dawson.
2017
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Author
Title
The governance of EU fundamental rights / Mark Dawson.
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Copyright
©2017
Call Number
KJE5132 .D39 2017
ISBN
9781107070493 hardcover
110707049X hardcover
110707049X hardcover
Description
xv, 241 pages ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)958448899
Summary
"In spite of a continued increase in the substantive scope and reach of EU fundamental rights, little attention has been paid to their practical enforcement. In this book, Mark Dawson looks at the mechanisms through which EU fundamental rights are protected and enforced, closely examining the interrelation between the EU's pertinent legal and political bodies. He argues that in order to understand EU fundamental rights we must also understand the institutional, political and normative constraints that shape the EU's policies. The book examines the performance of different EU institutions in relation to rights and studies two important policy fields - social rights and rule of law protection - in depth"-- Provided by publisher.
"In this book, Mark Dawson looks at the mechanisms through which EU fundamental rights are protected and enforced, closely examining the inter-relation between the EU's pertinent legal and political bodies"-- Provided by publisher.
"In this book, Mark Dawson looks at the mechanisms through which EU fundamental rights are protected and enforced, closely examining the inter-relation between the EU's pertinent legal and political bodies"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
List of Tables
xi
Series Editors' Preface
xiii
Acknowledgements
xv
Introduction
1
1.
Still an Ever Closer Union in Need of a Fundamental Rights Policy?
1
2.
Governance in the European Union
2
3.
Governance as a Fundamental Rights Concept
4
4.
What Are EU Fundamental Rights for?
7
5.
Which Institutions?
9
6.
Two Case Studies
11
7.
Book's Approach
15
1.
Critiquing and Theorising the Governance of EU Fundamental Rights
18
1.1.
Conceptualising and Justifying EU Fundamental Rights
18
1.2.
EU Human Rights Scepticism
21
1.2.1.
Counter-Majoritarian Difficulty
21
1.2.2.
Communitarian Critique - Individualising EU Citizenship
22
1.2.3.
Empirical Critique - What Do EU Rights Add?
25
1.3.
Procedural Approach to Transnational Human Rights Protection?
26
1.3.1.
Ely: Democracy and Distrust
27
1.3.2.
Habermas: The `Internal Relation' between the Rule of Law and Democracy
29
1.3.3.
Proceduralism in European Human Rights Law
31
1.4.
Fundamental Rights and Political Disagreement
36
1.4.1.
Normative Value of Disagreement
36
1.4.2.
Collective Enforcement of Fundamental Rights
39
1.5.
Conclusion
44
2.
Court of Justice in the Governance of EU Fundamental Rights
47
2.1.
Introduction
47
2.2.
Margin of Appreciation under the ECHR
49
2.3.
Does the Court of Justice Exercise a Margin of Appreciation? The Vertical Dimension
53
2.3.1.
Scope of EU Fundamental Rights
53
2.3.2.
Limitations on Charter Rights and the Diversity Variable
58
2.3.3.
Nature of Rights Variable
62
2.3.4.
Procedural Variable
65
2.3.5.
Level(s) of Protection
67
2.4.
Does the Court of Justice Exercise a Margin of Appreciation? The Horizontal Dimension
71
2.4.1.
Nature of Rights Variable
71
2.4.2.
Procedural Variable
73
2.5.
Balancing Different Margins of Appreciation in EU Fundamental Rights
77
2.5.1.
Scope: From a Binary Distinction to a `Sliding Scale'?
77
2.5.2.
Standard of Review: Towards a Real `Process-Oriented' Approach?
80
2.6.
Conclusion
82
3.
Fundamental Rights and the Political Institutions
84
3.1.
Dividing Labour in EU Fundamental Rights
84
3.2.
European Commission
87
3.2.1.
Impact Assessment and Establishing a `Fundamental Rights Culture'
89
3.2.2.
Fundamental Rights in Decision-Making
95
3.2.3.
Guardian of the Treaties (and the Charter Too?)
95
3.2.4.
Post-Legislative Action and Awareness Raising
97
3.3.
European Parliament
100
3.3.1.
Politicising EU Fundamental Rights
100
3.3.2.
Rights Reporting and the Role of the LIBE Committee
102
3.3.3.
Fundamental Rights in the Ordinary Legislative Procedure
104
3.4.
Council
107
3.4.1.
Making Council Proposals `Fundamental Rights Proof'
107
3.4.2.
Peer Review and the Scope of EU Fundamental Rights
110
3.4.3.
Frontex and Agency Governance
111
3.5.
Watchdog Institutions
114
3.5.1.
European Ombudsman as a Fundamental Rights Actor
114
3.5.2.
CJEU and the Ombudsman: Working Together to Police Executive Authority?
116
3.5.3.
Fundamental Rights in the Political Process
119
3.6.
Implementing Institutions
121
3.6.1.
Implementing `Dynamic' Rights: The Article 29 Working Party
121
3.6.2.
EU's Fundamental Rights Agency: The Road Not Taken?
126
3.7.
EU Institutions and the Standard of FR Protection: Tracing Two Legislative Proposals
133
3.7.1.
Data Protection and PNR: The Legislative Context
133
3.7.2.
Improving the Standard? Legislative Interaction on Fundamental Rights
135
3.8.
Conclusion
141
4.
Governing Justice and the Rule of Law
144
4.1.
Justifying EU Rule of Law Oversight
144
4.2.
European Rule of Law in Crisis - Early Warnings
149
4.3.
European Rule of Law in Crisis - Hungary
151
4.3.1.
Autonomy
152
4.3.2.
Electoral Competition
156
4.3.3.
Freedom of Expression and the Media
159
4.4.
European Rule of Law in Crisis - Romania
161
4.5.
Future of EU Intervention on Democracy and the Rule of Law
167
4.5.1.
`New' Governance and the Quantification of Democracy and the Rule of Law
167
4.5.2.
Command and Control Revisited: The Idea of a `Copenhagen Commission'
170
4.5.3.
`Reverse Solange' and the Judicialisation of an EU Rule of Law
173
4.6.
Rule of Law from a Governance Perspective
175
4.6.1.
Differentiation
176
4.6.2.
Multilevel Action
176
4.6.3.
Governing between Law and Politics
177
4.6.4.
Governing Not Government: The Dispersal of Normative Authority
178
4.7.
Conclusion - Poland and Beyond
179
5.
Governing Fundamental Social Rights
185
5.1.
What Are EU Social Rights and Why Might We Need Them?
185
5.2.
Social Rights in the Age of Austerity
189
5.2.1.
Greece
190
5.2.2.
Portugal
195
5.2.3.
Ireland
198
5.2.4.
Common Elements
201
5.3.
Role of the EU Institutions: How Responsible and How Accountable?
203
5.3.1.
Allocating Responsibility
203
5.3.2.
European Committee on Social Rights: Evaluating Conditionality's Social Effects
206
5.4.
Four Duties in the Governance of EU Social Rights
212
5.4.1.
Assessing Social Impacts
212
5.4.2.
Politicising Europe's Economic and Monetary Union
214
5.4.3.
Dividing Social Rights Responsibilities
217
5.4.4.
Empowering the Vulnerable
221
5.5.
Conclusion
224
Epilogue: Accession, Asylum and the Politics of Human Rights
226
Index
231