Gordon Silverstein

Law's Allure

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Law's Allure explains how, when, and why America's reliance on legal rules and judicial decisions shapes, constrains, saves, and sometimes even kills politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9780521721080
• ISBN-10: 0521721083
• Artikelnr.: 25617068

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.