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Crowdwashing Surveillance; Crowdsourcing Domination Crowdwashing监测;众包统治
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/lehr-2023-2005
Tamar Megiddo
Abstract Governments regularly rely on citizens’ cooperation in exercising their authority, including the enforcement of rules. This is not only common, but also a necessary practice in a legal system. Technology makes such reliance easier, facilitating increased enforcement of law at little cost. Emergency provides an added legitimizing logic, encouraging citizens’ cooperation and leading them to uncritically follow the government’s lead to reduce the risk to the nation and to themselves. This article considers governments’ crowdsourcing citizens to monitor and surveil other citizens. One central concern this practice raises is that it allows governments to circumvent the limits of their legitimate authority and to augment their power while also obscuring the actor responsible for the surveillance and enforcement action. Consequently, accountability and public oversight over the government are diminished. Where does conventional enlisting of cooperation from law-abiding citizens end, and crowdsourcing totalitarian mass mobilization of citizens against fellow citizens begin? The article’s principal claim is that a bright line should be drawn where governments’ crowdsourcing of information from citizens serves as a means to circumvent democratic checks on their power to collect information, while also disguising the actor responsible for the surveillance. Such practice severely erodes social trust between citizens, jeopardizing their ability to organize and collaborate as engaged citizens and thus serve as a check on government. It further grants excessive power to some citizens over others, endangering the latter’s freedom, especially where the information gathered is used to symbolically or actually exclude certain individuals from the political community.
政府经常依靠公民的合作来行使权力,包括执行规则。这不仅是常见的,而且是法律制度的必要做法。科技使这种依赖变得更容易,以很少的成本促进了法律的加强执行。紧急状态提供了一个额外的合法化逻辑,鼓励公民的合作,引导他们不加批判地跟随政府的领导,以减少对国家和自己的风险。本文考虑政府的众包公民来监视和监视其他公民。这种做法引发的一个核心问题是,它允许政府绕过其合法权力的限制,扩大其权力,同时也模糊了负责监督和执法行动的行为者。因此,对政府的问责制和公众监督被削弱了。从遵纪守法的公民中寻求合作的传统方式到哪里结束,以及大众外包的极权主义大规模动员公民对抗同胞的开始?这篇文章的主要主张是,应该划出一条明确的界线,即政府将公民的信息众包作为一种手段,以规避对其收集信息的权力的民主审查,同时也掩盖了负责监视的行为者。这种做法严重侵蚀了公民之间的社会信任,损害了他们作为参与公民组织和合作的能力,从而影响了对政府的制衡。它进一步赋予一些公民对其他公民的过度权力,危及后者的自由,特别是在收集的信息被用来象征性地或实际上将某些人排除在政治社区之外的情况下。
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Crowdsourcing Compliance: The Use of WikiRate to Promote Corporate Supply Chain Transparency 众包合规性:使用WikiRate促进企业供应链透明度
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/lehr-2023-2004
Galit A. Sarfaty
Abstract This article analyzes the use of crowdsourcing to promote corporate sustainability by assessing compliance with supply chain disclosure laws. It draws on a case study of WikiRate.org as a novel example of crowdsourcing compliance with respect to the UK Modern Slavery Act and U.S. conflict minerals legislation (section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Act). WikiRate is an open research platform whose mission is to crowdsource better companies by motivating corporations to be transparent about their environmental, social, and governance performance. In particular, WikiRate’s projects on modern slavery and conflict minerals harness the power of citizens to evaluate the quality of corporate disclosures produced in accordance with these laws. Following an analysis of its projects on modern slavery and conflict minerals, I evaluate the challenges of using crowdsourcing to assess legal compliance, including the potential manipulation of data and the difficulty of relying on non-expert citizens to assess complex information in corporate disclosures. I argue that one must identify the appropriate “crowd” that would be most capable of assessing compliance with a given law. While crowdsourcing platforms such as WikiRate invite a broad range of stakeholders to assess compliance, the reality is that only a limited set of individuals may be able to meaningfully participate given the complexity of supply chain disclosures. Thus, “expertsourcing” may be a more appropriate tool for assessing compliance with certain laws as it limits participation to citizens with specialized expertise.
摘要本文通过评估供应链信息披露法的遵守情况,分析了众包对促进企业可持续发展的作用。它借鉴了WikiRate.org的案例研究,作为众包遵守英国现代奴隶制法案和美国冲突矿产立法(多德-弗兰克金融改革法案第1502节)的新例子。WikiRate是一个开放的研究平台,其使命是通过激励企业对其环境、社会和治理绩效进行透明,来众包更好的公司。特别是,WikiRate关于现代奴隶制和冲突矿产的项目利用公民的力量来评估根据这些法律产生的公司披露的质量。在对其关于现代奴隶制和冲突矿产的项目进行分析之后,我评估了使用众包来评估法律合规性的挑战,包括潜在的数据操纵以及依赖非专家公民来评估公司披露中的复杂信息的困难。我认为,人们必须确定合适的“人群”,他们最有能力评估对某一特定法律的遵守情况。虽然像WikiRate这样的众包平台邀请了广泛的利益相关者来评估合规性,但现实情况是,考虑到供应链披露的复杂性,只有一小部分人可能能够有意义地参与其中。因此,“专家外包”可能是评估某些法律遵守情况的更合适的工具,因为它限制了具有专门知识的公民参与。
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Frontmatter 头版头条
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/lehr-2023-frontmatter1
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Rights Revolution and Counter-Revolution: Democratic Backsliding and Human Rights in Hungary 权利革命与反革命:匈牙利的民主倒退与人权
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/lehr-2020-2013
Gábor Halmai
Abstract The Article discusses the democratic backsliding after 2010 in Hungary, and how it affected the state of human rights in the country, a Member State of the European Union. The main argument of the Article is that paradoxically the non-legitimate 1989 constitution provided full-fledged protection of fundamental rights, while the procedurally legitimate 2011 constitution-making resulted in curtailment of rights and their constitutional guarantees. The Article first describes the democratic transition that occurred in 1989–1990 as a rights revolution and the results of the 2011 “illiberal” constitution, called Fundamental Law, as counter-revolution. The second part of the Article illustrates the constitutional and statutory regulation of human rights protection after this “rule of law revolution,” and the activist jurisprudence of the first Constitutional Court using the concept of an “invisible constitution” to protect human rights. The third part discusses the rights provisions of the new Fundamental Law and several statutes dismantling the guarantees of human rights, with special attention to the decreased possibilities of state institutions, such as the Constitutional Court, the ordinary judiciary and ombudsmen, as well as civil society organizations to effectively protect fundamental rights. The fourth part assesses the efforts of European institutions to force the Hungarian government to comply with the human rights standards laid down in the European Convention of Human Rights and in the Treaty of the European Union. The Article concludes that neither internal nor external challenges could prevent the development of a new authoritarian regime with no guaranteed human rights.
本文讨论了2010年后匈牙利的民主倒退,以及它如何影响这个欧盟成员国的人权状况。该条的主要论点是,矛盾的是,1989年不合法的宪法提供了对基本权利的全面保护,而2011年程序上合法的制宪导致了权利及其宪法保障的削弱。文章首先将1989-1990年发生的民主转型描述为一场权利革命,并将2011年“不自由”宪法(称为《基本法》)的结果描述为反革命。文章的第二部分阐述了这场“法治革命”之后对人权保障的宪法和法律规制,以及第一个宪法法院运用“无形宪法”概念保护人权的积极法理学。第三部分讨论了新的《基本法》的权利规定和若干法规取消了对人权的保障,并特别注意到诸如宪法法院、普通司法机构和监察专员以及民间社会组织等国家机构有效保护基本权利的可能性越来越小。第四部分评估了欧洲机构为迫使匈牙利政府遵守《欧洲人权公约》和《欧洲联盟条约》中规定的人权标准所做的努力。文章的结论是,无论是内部挑战还是外部挑战,都无法阻止一个没有人权保障的新专制政权的发展。
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Illiberal Measures in Backsliding Democracies: Differences and Similarities between Recent Developments in Israel, Hungary, and Poland 倒退民主中的不自由措施:以色列、匈牙利和波兰近期发展的异同
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/lehr-2020-2010
M. Kremnitzer, Y. Shany
Abstract Around the world, many liberal democracies are facing in recent years serious challenges and threats emanating inter alia from the rise of political populism. Such challenges and threats are feeding an almost existential discourse about the crisis of democracy, and recent legal and political developments in Israel aimed at weakening the power of the Supreme Court and other rule of law institutions have also been described in such terms. This Article primarily intends to explore the relevance of the discourse surrounding the decline of liberal democracy, and its possible relevance for Israeli democracy, by examining the principal similarities and differences between specific legislative and administrative measures recently taken or contemplated in Israel and in two Central European states: Poland and Hungary. We focus on three sets of illiberal measures adopted or contemplated in Hungary, Poland, and Israel: (i) measures directed at limiting the power of the judiciary; (ii) measures intended to restrict the operation of civil society organizations; and (iii) measures directed at curbing dissent to governmental policies and at influencing the discourse in the media and academia. Although Israeli democratic institutions still retain much of their independence and vitality, we nonetheless find some degree of similarity between measures taken or contemplated by Hungary, Poland, and Israel, despite the many differences between their legal systems, historical contexts, political cultures, and the distinct stages of backsliding they seem to experience.
摘要近年来,世界各地的许多自由民主国家都面临着政治民粹主义兴起等带来的严重挑战和威胁。这些挑战和威胁助长了关于民主危机的几乎是存在主义的讨论,以色列最近旨在削弱最高法院和其他法治机构权力的法律和政治发展也被这样描述。本文主要旨在通过研究以色列和两个中欧国家(波兰和匈牙利)最近采取或考虑的具体立法和行政措施之间的主要相似之处和差异,探讨围绕自由民主衰落的话语的相关性,以及它与以色列民主的可能相关性。我们重点关注匈牙利、波兰和以色列通过或考虑的三套不自由措施:(一)旨在限制司法权力的措施;二旨在限制民间社会组织运作的措施;三旨在遏制对政府政策的异议并影响媒体和学术界言论的措施。尽管以色列的民主机构仍然保持着很大的独立性和活力,但我们仍然发现,匈牙利、波兰和以色列采取或考虑的措施之间存在一定程度的相似性,尽管它们的法律制度、历史背景、政治文化之间存在许多差异,而且它们似乎经历了不同的倒退阶段。
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Democratic Erosion, Populist Constitutionalism, and the Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments Doctrine 民主侵蚀、民粹立宪主义和违宪宪法修正主义
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/lehr-2020-2011
Yaniv Roznai, Tamar Hostovsky Brandes
Abstract The world is experiencing a crisis of constitutional democracies. Populist leaders are abusing constitutional mechanisms, such as formal procedures of constitutional change, in order to erode the democratic order. The changes are, very often, gradual, incremental, and subtle. Each constitutional change, on its own, may not necessarily amount to a serious violation of essential democratic values. Yet, when examined in the context of an ongoing process, such constitutional changes may prove to be part of the incremental, gradual process of democratic erosion in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. This Article explores how courts can respond to such constitutional changes. We argue the Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendment Doctrine should be adapted to respond to existing constitutional practices that utilize incremental and subtle amendments to dismantle the democratic order. We suggest that an aggregated judicial review should be developed. We must also rethink the automatic immunity – the result of two hundred years of revolutionary constitutional theory – provided to complete constitutional replacement from constitutional restrictions and scrutiny. Finally, as opposed to the instinct to require judicial self-restraint with respect to constitutional changes that concern the judiciary itself, we suggest that this is perhaps the type of changes that require strictest scrutiny.
摘要世界正在经历宪政民主的危机。民粹主义领导人滥用宪法机制,如正式的宪法修改程序,以破坏民主秩序。这些变化往往是渐进的、渐进的和微妙的。每一次宪法修改,就其本身而言,不一定是对基本民主价值观的严重侵犯。然而,当在一个正在进行的过程中进行审查时,这种宪法改革可能会被证明是民主侵蚀的渐进过程的一部分,在这个过程中,整体大于部分的总和。这篇文章探讨了法院如何应对这种宪法变化。我们认为,违宪宪法修正主义应该适应现有的宪法实践,这些实践利用渐进和微妙的修正来破坏民主秩序。我们建议,应当制定一项综合司法审查。我们还必须重新思考自动豁免——这是200年革命宪法理论的结果——是为了从宪法限制和审查中完全取代宪法而提供的。最后,与在涉及司法机构本身的宪法改革方面要求司法自我克制的本能相反,我们认为这可能是需要最严格审查的改革类型。
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Killing a Constitution with a Thousand Cuts: Executive Aggrandizement and Party-state Fusion in India 千刀斩宪法:印度行政权力的强化与党国融合
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3367266
Tarunabh Khaitan
Abstract Many concerned citizens, including judges, bureaucrats, politicians, activists, journalists, and academics, have been claiming that Indian democracy has been imperilled under the premiership of Narendra Modi, which began in 2014. To examine this claim, the Article sets up an analytic framework for accountability mechanisms liberal democratic constitutions put in place to provide a check on the political executive. The assumption is that only if this framework is dismantled in a systemic manner can we claim that democracy itself is in peril. This framework helps distinguish between actions that one may disagree with ideologically but are nonetheless permitted by an elected government, from actions that strike at the heart of liberal democratic constitutionalism. Liberal democratic constitutions typically adopt three ways of making accountability demands on the political executive: vertically, by demanding electoral accountability to the people; horizontally, by subjecting it to accountability demands of other state institutions like the judiciary and fourth branch institutions; and diagonally, by requiring discursive accountability by the media, the academy, and civil society. This framework assures democracy over time – i.e. it guarantees democratic governance not only to the people today, but to all future peoples of India. Each elected government has the mandate to implement its policies over a wide range of matters. However, seeking to entrench the ruling party’s stranglehold on power in ways that are inimical to the continued operation of democracy cannot be one of them. The Article finds that the first Modi government in power between 2014 and 2019 did indeed seek to undermine each of these three strands of executive accountability. Unlike the assault on democratic norms during India Gandhi’s Emergency in the 1970s, there is little evidence of a direct or full-frontal attack during this period. The Bharatiya Janata Party government’s mode of operation was subtle, indirect, and incremental, but also systemic. Hence, the Article characterizes the phenomenon as “killing a constitution by a thousand cuts.” The incremental assaults on democratic governance were typically justified by a combination of a managerial rhetoric of efficiency and good governance (made plausible by the undeniable imperfection of our institutions) and a divisive rhetoric of hyper-nationalism (which brands political opponents of the party as traitors of the state). Since its resounding victory in the 2019 general elections, the Modi government appears to have moved into consolidation mode. No longer constrained by the demands of coalition partners, early signs suggest that it may abandon the incrementalist approach for a more direct assault on democratic constitutionalism.
摘要许多关心此事的公民,包括法官、官僚、政治家、活动家、记者和学者,一直声称在2014年开始的纳伦德拉·莫迪总理任期内,印度民主受到了威胁。为了检验这一说法,该条款为问责制机制建立了一个分析框架,自由民主宪法旨在对政治行政部门进行检查。我们的假设是,只有以系统的方式拆除这一框架,我们才能声称民主本身处于危险之中。这一框架有助于区分意识形态上可能不同意但民选政府允许的行动与触及自由民主宪政核心的行动。自由民主宪法通常采用三种方式对政治行政部门提出问责要求:纵向要求选举对人民负责;横向而言,通过使其服从司法机构和第四分支机构等其他国家机构的问责要求;从对角线上讲,要求媒体、学院和民间社会追究责任。这一框架确保了随着时间的推移的民主——也就是说,它不仅保证了今天的人民的民主治理,也保证了未来印度所有人民的民主管理。每个民选政府都有权在广泛的事务上执行其政策。然而,试图以不利于民主持续运作的方式巩固执政党对权力的控制不可能是其中之一。文章发现,2014年至2019年间执政的第一届莫迪政府确实试图破坏这三条行政问责制中的每一条。与20世纪70年代印度甘地紧急状态期间对民主规范的攻击不同,几乎没有证据表明这一时期发生了直接或全面的正面攻击。印度人民党政府的运作模式是微妙的、间接的、渐进的,但也是系统的。因此,该条款将这种现象描述为“以千刀斩宪法”。“对民主治理的渐进攻击通常是由效率和良好治理的管理言论(由于我们的机构不可否认的不完美而变得合理)和极端民族主义的分裂言论(将党的政治对手称为国家叛徒)相结合来证明的。自2019年大选大获全胜以来,莫迪政府似乎已进入整合模式。不再受联盟伙伴要求的约束,早期迹象表明,它可能会放弃渐进主义的做法,对民主宪政进行更直接的攻击。
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Frontmatter
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/lehr-2020-frontmatter1
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The Machinery of International Law and Democratic Backsliding: The Problem of Term Limits 国际法机制与民主倒退:期限限制问题
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/lehr-2020-2012
Tom Ginsburg
Abstract Our era is one of democratic backsliding. International courts and institutions have provided some bulwark against this trend, but we are now witnessing leaders seeking to use international law to extend their power. Courts in several countries have relied on international human rights norms to facilitate term limit extensions by leaders seeking to retain power beyond what is constitutionally allowed. This Article documents these cases and calls for a more robust and substantive international law of democracy-protection.
摘要我们的时代是民主倒退的时代。国际法院和机构为抵御这一趋势提供了一些堡垒,但我们现在看到领导人试图利用国际法扩大其权力。一些国家的法院依靠国际人权规范为领导人延长任期提供便利,这些领导人试图在宪法允许的范围之外保留权力。本条记录了这些案例,并呼吁制定一项更有力、更实质性的民主保护国际法。
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The Technologies of Discrimination: How Platforms Cultivate Gender Inequality 歧视的技术:平台如何培育性别不平等
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2019-11-18 DOI: 10.1515/LEHR-2019-2006
Arianne Renan Barzilay
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