Over 800 million Europeans can individually obtain a ruling from a European court against their State if it has violated their human rights. There is an assembl

Explores how the European Court of Human Rights understands 'democracy' and might support more deliberative, participatory and inclusive practices.

Democracy is in distress! The Secretary General of the 47-nation Council of Europe, Marija Pejčinović Burić, has highlighted a “clear and worrying degree o

This book investigates the disparity between rhetoric and performance in the European Union response to abuses of human rights and transgression of democracy. W

Human rights, democracy and the rule of law depend on the institutions that give them form. But for populists, who invoke the proclaimed “will of the people�