The welfare state has been developed first and in its largest extent in North-Western Europe, in Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Sweden. It is also in these countries where the crisis and financial problems of the welfare state are felt first. The need for restructuring the welfare state is a challenge of a supra-national, European and international scale. The book analyses the different welfare states in Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Sweden with outlooks to Eastern Europe and Japan and examines the proposals for reforming and restructuring the welfare state in...

An assessment of the European Court of Human Rights at the national, European and international levels.

This book traverses the disciplines of law, political philosophy and international relations in assessing the normative legitimacy of international human rights regimes.

Saul, Follesdal and Ulfstein examine in detail the interplay between national parliaments and the international human rights judiciary.

An interdisciplinary volume exploring the concept of legitimacy in relation to international courts and what can drive and weaken it.

Explores the contributions of international courts and tribunals in terms of performance by offering a comparative analysis of international courts.

The arms of international courts are long. Follesdal and Ulftsein bring together renowned experts to ask whether the benefits of global governance, the rule of law, and protection of the rights of individuals outweigh the compromising of national sovereignty and the lack of democratic accountability.