Gordon Silverstein

Law's Allure (eBook, PDF)

How Law Shapes, Constrains, Saves, and Kills Politics

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Judicial and political power are inextricably linked in America, but by the time John Roberts and Samuel Alito joined the Supreme Court, that link seemed more important, more significant, and more pervasive than ever before. From war powers to abortion, from tobacco to integration, from the environment to campaign finance, Americans increasingly turn away from the political tools of negotiation, bargaining, and persuasion to embrace what they have come to believe is a more effective, more efficient, and even more just world of formal rules, automated procedures, litigation, and judicial decision-making. Using more than ten controversial policy case studies, Law's Allure: How Law Shapes, Constrains, Saves, and Kills Politics draws a roadmap to help politicians, litigators, judges, policy advocates, and those who study them understand the motives and incentives that encourage efforts to legalize, formalize, and judicialize the political process and American public policy, as well as the risks and rewards these choices can generate.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511530432
• Artikelnr.: 38185411

Autorenporträt

Gordon Silverstein is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. A former journalist with a PhD from Harvard University, Massachusetts, Professor Silverstein also has taught at Rice University, Houston, Dartmouth College, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, and the University of Minnesota. Silverstein has written a number of articles and book chapters on American politics, the separation of powers, and judicial power in comparative perspective and is the author of Imbalance of Powers: Constitutional Interpretation and the Making of American Foreign Policy (1996).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: law's allure and American politics; Part I. Law's Allure:
Why, and Why Now, and Why it Matters: 1. Law's allure: motives, incentives,
patterns, and process; 2. Why now? The expansion and acceleration of law's
allure; 3. Why it matters: law is different - a theory of precedent; Part
II. Law's Allure: Patterns, Process, and Cautionary Tales: 4. Poverty and
abortion: the risks and rewards of a judicial strategy; 5. Environmental
regulation: a constructive process; 6. Campaign finance: a de-constructive
process; 7. When the court says yes - and no: the special prosecutor,
budget control, and line item vetoes; 8. When the court is reluctant to
intervene: war powers; Part III. Law's Allure: Costs and Consequences: 9.
Tobacco: the promise and peril of law's allure; Conclusion: law's allure
and American politics: for better - and worse.