Re-thinking Socio-economic Rights in an Insecure World

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Part One: Some Conceptual Frameworks......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
The Horizontal Priority of Economic Rights......Page 22
Part Two: An Account of Constitutional Protection......Page 36
Socio-Economic Rights in the Constitution for Europe: Between Symbolism and Legal Realism......Page 38
Grand Promises in the Face of High Expectations: Welfare Rights in Hungarian Constitutional Jurisprudence......Page 50
Social and Economic Rights in the Jurisprudence of the Bulgarian Constitutional Court......Page 82
Litigating for Socio-Economic Rights on National and International Level: Problems of Standing and Legal Strategies......Page 104
Part Three: Socio-Economic Rights and Developing Countries......Page 118
The Patrimonial States and Socio-Economic Rights in Africa......Page 120
Socio-Economic Factors of Conflicts - Countering the Risks......Page 140
Part Four: Socio-Economic Rights and Marginalized Groups......Page 162
Roma Rights, Racial Discrimination and ESC Rights......Page 164
Contributors......Page 176
Index......Page 180