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Human Rights Without Political Participation?

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Abstract
John Rawls claims that “benevolent absolutisms” honor human rights without honoring political participation rights. Critics argue that he is mistaken. One objection appeals to the instrumental value of political participation rights. This objection holds that without political participation rights, individuals cannot secure the content of their rights against encroachment. Given this, individuals without political participation rights cannot be said to have rights at all. Here, I evaluate this instrumental objection. I identify three ways of relating political participation rights to human rights and show that one makes sense of Rawls’s claim. I then defend this view from instrumental objections. This has implications beyond the realm of Rawls scholarship. Many societies are not democratic and are not democratizing. We must determine whether any of these societies can secure at least the content of human rights and, if so, what shape their social and political institutions must take to do so.

Keywords Rawls . Political participation . Democracy. Benevolent absolutism. Human rights

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Human Rights Review (2014) 15:369–390

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Penerbit

: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht., 2014

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Human Rights Review (2014) 15:369–390

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English

ISBN/ISSN

1874-6306

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DEMOKRASI
HAK ASASI MANUSIA

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