How policy shapes politics : rights, courts, litigation, and the struggle over injury compensation /

The 'global rise of judicial power' has been called one of the most significant developments in late twentieth and early twenty-first-century politics. In this book, Jeb Barnes and Thomas F. Burke examine the political consequences of 'judicialization' - the growing reliance on c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barnes, Jeb
Other Authors: Burke, Thomas Frederick
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Series:Oxford studies in postwar American political development.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:The 'global rise of judicial power' has been called one of the most significant developments in late twentieth and early twenty-first-century politics. In this book, Jeb Barnes and Thomas F. Burke examine the political consequences of 'judicialization' - the growing reliance on courts, rights and litigation in public policy - by analyzing the field of injury compensation, in which judicialized and bureaucratized programmes operate side-by-side.
Physical Description:1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780190201944
0190201940