Whitney K. Taylor

The Social Constitution

Embedding Social Rights Through Legal Mobilization

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the Colombian experiment with robust rights protections and traces how those rights came to be meaningful in citizens' everyday lives, allowing them to claim access to goods like healthcare. It develops a novel approach to legal mobilization that is both relational and interactive.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009367776
• ISBN-10: 1009367773
• Artikelnr.: 72599938

Autorenporträt

Whitney K. Taylor is Assistant Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University. Her research focuses on the intersection of rights, law, and contentious politics.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: the social constitution
2. Constitutional embedding through legal mobilization
3. Expectations and transformations of Colombian constitutional law
4. Social embedding
5. Legal embedding
6. Challenges to embedding: legal legibility
7. Challenges to embedding: power struggles
8. Challenges to embedding: workload
9. Partial constitutional embedding: the case of South Africa
10. Conclusion. Social constitutionalism and the politics of rights
Appendix: interviewees.