Hollow Hope Can Courts Bring about Social Change?

Name: Hollow Hope Can Courts Bring about Social Change?
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ISBN: 9780226727035

ISBN-10: 0226727033

ISBN-13: 9780226727035

Edition: 1991 (Reprint)

Authors: Gerald N. Rosenberg

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Liberals have acclaimed, and conservatives decried, reliance on courts as tools for changes. But while debate rages over whether the courts should be playing such a legislative role, Gerald N. Rosenberg poses a far more fundamental question--can courts produce political and social reform? Rosenberg presents, with remarkable skill, an overwhelming case that efforts to use the courts to generate significant reforms in civil rights, abortion, and women's rights were largely failures. "The real strength of The Hollow Hope . . . is its resuscitation of American Politics--the old-fashioned representative kind--as a valid instrument of social change. Indeed, the flip side of Mr. Rosenberg's…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/15/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.07" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

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