2 : a competition in which each contestant performs without direct contact with or interference from competitors He won the contest for best photograph. The third would deploy sophisticated empirical analysis to determine which aspects of democracy have desired positive effects. Definition of contest (Entry 2 of 2) 1 : a struggle for superiority or victory : competition a football contest between rival teams.
The second seeks a broadly acceptable minimal definition of democracy. The first holds that history has decided upon liberal democracy, so essential contestation is a philosophical worry with few practical implications. tionaries continue to define a concept as a thought, something conceived. I survey three responses to essential contestability. While some political theorists have periodically challenged the empiricism. Arguments for its existence ignore the fact that democracy is the paradigm essentially contested concept, so cannot establish what a right to democracy would be a right to. The right to democracy must instead be understood as the right to engage the contestation at the core of the concept, through formative agency that determines what democracy should mean in practice in particular contexts.ĪB - The idea of a human right to democracy has received substantial attention from political theorists, philosophers, and international lawyers. APPLICATION OF A CONTESTED NOTION Despite the embeddedness of the notion of human dignity in the human rights discourse, as a legal concept it remains largely open-textured, for there is no authoritative definition to be found in any of the key international human rights instruments regarding its content and scope. The third would deploy sophisticated empirical analysis to determine which aspects of democracy have desired positive effects. Globalization first appeared in the 1940s, but did not gain. I survey three responses to essential contestability. Globalization: a contested concept attempts to provide a definition of globalization. It harbours the possibility of a multitude of mutually exclusionary definitions. Arguments for its existence ignore the fact that democracy is the paradigm essentially contested concept, so cannot establish what a right to democracy would be a right to. in philosopher Walter Gallie's words an essentially contested concept. N2 - The idea of a human right to democracy has received substantial attention from political theorists, philosophers, and international lawyers. T1 - Can there be a human right to an essentially contested concept? The case of democracy
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