'Rights talk' in Europe: The influence of rights talk, American style, on Danish democracy and welfare

American Studies in Scandinavia

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 41-52

  Porsdam, Helle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

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References (17)

1. Margaret Atwood, Surfacing (N.Y.: Fawcett Crest, 1972), 153
2. Atwood, quoted in Cathy N. Davidson, "Feminist '1984': Margaret Atwood Talks about Her Exciting New Novel," M.S., February 1986, 25
3. Mary Ann Glendon, Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse (N.Y.: The Free Press, 1991)
4. Glendon, Rights Talk, x
5. Geoffrey C. Hazard and Michele Taruffo, American Civil Procedure (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993), 211
6. Holger Kallehauge, "Handicap og menneskerettigheder," LighedsTegn, No. 3, 1998, 3
7. See Torbjörn Vallinder, "The Judicialization of Politics - A World-wide Phenomenon: Introduction," International Political Science Review (1994), Vol. 15, No. 2, 91-99
8. See also The Global Expansion of Judicial Power, edited by C. Neal Tate and Torbjörn Vallinder (N.Y.: New York University Press, 1995), chs. 1 and 2. - In this latter work, Vallinder offers this definition: "Thus the judicialization of politics should normally mean either (1) the expansion of the province of the courts or the judges at the expense of the politicians and/or the administrators, that is, the transfer of decision-making rights from the legislature, the cabinet, or the civil service to the courts or, at least, (2) the spread of judicial decision-making methods outside the judicial province proper. In summing up we might say that judicialization essentially involves turning something into a form of judicial process" (13)
9. See e.g. Martin Shapiro, "Juridicalization of Politics in the United States," International Political Science Review (1994), Vol. 15, No. 2, 101-12
10. Elisabeth Herion Sarafidis, "Reflections on the Dynamics of Cultural Transfer," Sinas-News, No. 26, 2001, 3
11. Manfred Berg and Martin H. Geyer, '"Introduction", in Berg and Geyer, eds., Two Cultures of Rights: The Quest for Inclusion and Participation in Modern America and Germany (German Historical Institute, Washington D.C. and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 15-16
12. and Neuss, Geburtshelfer Europas? Die Rolle der Vereinigten Staaten im europäischen Integrationsprozess 1945-1958 (Baden-baden: Nomos, 2000)
13. Martin Scheinin, "Introduction," in Martin Scheinin, ed., Welfare State and Constitutionalism - Nordic Perspectives (Copenhagen: Nordic Council of Ministers, 2001), 20
14. Hjalte Rasmussen, Folkestyre, Grundlov og Højesteret: Grundlovens § 20 på prøve (Copenhagen: Christian Ejlers' Forlag, 1996), 38
15. Jens Elo Rytter, "Rettighedsevolutionen i dansk ret," Lov og ret, no. 4, 2000, 14 (my translation)
16. This information is available at www.jur.ku.dk/konfliktmaegling. According to Project Director Lin Adrian, there were 78 applicants for 26 places in the fall of 2002. For the 40 places available to law students in the 2003 spring course on mediation and conflict resolution at the Copenhagen Law School, moreover, 120 students have signed up
17. See Jerold S. Auerbach, Justice Without Law? Resolving Disputes Without Lawyers (N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1983), chapters 3 to 5