Free Expression and Democracy - A Comparative Analysis

Informationen zum Autor Kevin W. Saunders received his PhD from the University of Miami and JD from the University of Michigan. He clerked at the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit for Judge Kenneth Starr. He taught at the University of Arkansas and the University of Oklahoma, and as visiting James Madison Chair at Drake University, Iowa, before moving to Michigan State University, where he holds the Charles Clarke Chair in Constitutional Law. He is the author of three earlier books: Violence as Obscenity (1996), Saving our Children from the First Amendment (2006), and Degradation: What the History of Obscenity Tells Us about Hate Speech (2011). Klappentext An examination of differences in how the world's democracies address a variety of issues involving free expression. Zusammenfassung The book analyzes how democracies are addressing issues of freedom of expression. It will be used as a supplemental text in courses on constitutional rights! government policies! media studies! and comparative politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; 1. The protection of free expression in a democracy; 2. Varieties of expression; 3. Incitement of crime; 4. Hate speech; 5. Holocaust denial and other false assertions of fact; 6. Political party bans; 7. Political campaign limitations; 8. The desecration of national symbols and lèse majesté; 9. Defamation; 10. Attacks on personal honor; 11. Obscenity and child pornography; 12. Children and expression; 13. Criminal trials and freedom of the press; 14. Government secrecy; 15. A matter of choices; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Kevin W. Saunders, Kevin W. (Michigan State University) Saunders, Saunders Kevin W.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.03.2017
• EAN: 9781107171978
• ISBN: 978-1-107-17197-8
• No. of pages: 386
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Censorship, Comparative Politics, Human rights, civil rights, Ethical Issues: Censorship, Freedom Of Information & Freedom Of Speech