International law and new challenges to democracy in the digital age
- This chapter aims to analyse whether and how democracy is actually threatened by big-data-based operations and what role international law can play to respond to this possible threat. It shows how big-data-based operations challenge democracy and how international law can help in defending it. The chapter focuses on both state and non-state actors may undermine democracy through big data operations; although democracy as such is a rather underdeveloped concept in international law, which is often more concerned with effectivity than legitimacy – international law protects against these challenges via a democracy-based approach rooted in international human rights law on the one hand, and the principle of non-intervention on the other hand. Thus, although democracy does not play a major role in international law, international law nevertheless is able to protect democracy against challenges from the inside as well as outside.
Verfasserangaben: | Dominik SteigerORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429288654 |
ISBN: | 9780429288654 |
ISBN: | 9780367230548 |
ISBN: | 9781032082554 |
Titel des übergeordneten Werks (Englisch): | Big data, political campaigning and the law : democracy and privacy in the age of micro-targeting |
Untertitel (Englisch): | big data, privacy and interferences with the political process |
Verlag: | Routledge |
Verlagsort: | London |
Herausgeber*in(nen): | Normann Witzleb, Moira Paterson, Janice Richardson |
Publikationstyp: | Teil eines Buches (Kapitel) |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Datum der Erstveröffentlichung: | 18.12.2019 |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2019 |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 30.03.2023 |
Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | Computer Science; Humanities; Law; Politics & International Relations; Social Sciences |
Seitenanzahl: | 28 |
Erste Seite: | 71 |
Letzte Seite: | 98 |
Organisationseinheiten: | Juristische Fakultät / Öffentliches Recht |
DDC-Klassifikation: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 34 Recht / 340 Recht |
Peer Review: | Referiert |