{"id":28495,"date":"2019-06-20T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eliamep.lncdoo.com\/gnosi-se-epipedo-vasis-schetika-me-ti-thriskeia-sto-evropaiko-dikastirio-anthropinon-dikaiomaton\/"},"modified":"2024-08-28T11:05:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T08:05:25","slug":"gnosi-se-epipedo-vasis-schetika-me-ti-thriskeia-sto-evropaiko-dikastirio-anthropinon-dikaiomaton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/gnosi-se-epipedo-vasis-schetika-me-ti-thriskeia-sto-evropaiko-dikastirio-anthropinon-dikaiomaton\/","title":{"rendered":"Grassroots Level Awareness about Religion at the European Court of Human Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the-content\"><p><strong><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial,sans-serif;\">Effie Fokas i<\/span><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial,sans-serif;\">n eds.\u00a0Jeroen Temperman, T. Jeremy Gunn and Malcolm D. Evans,\u00a0<em>The European Court of Human Rights and the Freedom of Religion or Belief: The 25 Years since Kokkinakis<\/em>, Brill, 2019, pp. 419-440<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial,sans-serif;\">This chapter draws on research designed to bring the influence on religious pluralism of the European Court of Human Rights into sharp focus, but\u00a0<i>from the ground up<\/i>:<i>\u00a0<\/i>we have access to information about the direct effect of the Court in terms of implementation, or not, of its decisions via policy change enacted by national governments, but we have little insight into the indirect effects of the Court, in terms of whether and the extent to which the Court\u2019s case law mobilises grassroots level actors in pursuit of their rights.\u00a0A study of the indirect effects of case law includes attention to the many ways its decisions are deployed by social actors in their rights campaigns, and in many venues outside of courts.\u00a0\u00a0The broader research from which the present chapter emanates focuses not on the gap between the promise of certain court decisions and actual social change but rather on the gap between such decisions and the change in societal\u00a0<i>expectations<\/i>: to what extent do court decisions lead to a shift in social actors\u2019 conceptions of their rights, in their discourse about those rights, and in their propensity to pursue those rights, whether through legal or political means?\u00a0Answers to this question presuppose a far more basic one: how\u00a0<i>aware\u00a0<\/i>of the Court and its religion-related case law are social actors at the grassroots level? European institutions are notoriously exposed to criticism as non-transparent and distant from the citizen. This is no less the case for the ECtHR. To what extent does knowledge about the Court\u2019s decisions related to religion trickle down to grassroots actors with a vested interest in these decisions, and to what effects?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial,sans-serif;\">Available\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brill.com\/abstract\/book\/edcoll\/9789004346901\/BP000022.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\"><b>here<\/b><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effie Fokas in eds.\u00a0Jeroen Temperman, T. Jeremy Gunn and Malcolm D. Evans,\u00a0The European Court of Human Rights and the Freedom of Religion or Belief: The 25 Years since Kokkinakis, Brill, 2019, pp. 419-440 This chapter draws on research designed to bring the influence on religious pluralism of the European Court of Human Rights into sharp [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[492],"tags":[],"program":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44827,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28495\/revisions\/44827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28495"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=28495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}