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Recalibrating Reform - Stuart Chinn

Recalibrating Reform

The Limits of Political Change

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
355 Seiten
2017
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-66738-9 (ISBN)
CHF 64,55 inkl. MwSt
This book examines a pattern of conservative resurgence following several eras of reform in American history by pointing to the phenomenon of 'recalibration'. By highlighting recalibration as a regular companion to reform, the book ultimately sheds light on the barriers to, and possibilities for, sweeping change in American politics.
Some of the most important eras of reform in US history reveal a troubling pattern: often reform is compromised after the initial legislative and judicial victories have been achieved. Thus Jim Crow racial exclusions followed Reconstruction; employer prerogatives resurged after the passage of the Wagner Act in 1935; and after the civil rights reforms of the mid-twentieth century, principles of color-blindness remain dominant in key areas of constitutional law that allow structural racial inequalities to remain hidden or unaddressed. When momentous reforms occur, certain institutions and legal rights will survive the disruption and remain intact, just in different forms. Thus governance in the post-reform period reflects a systematic recalibration or reshaping of the earlier reforms as a result of the continuing influence and power of such resilient institutions and rights. Recalibrating Reform examines this issue and demonstrates the pivotal role of the Supreme Court in post-reform recalibration.

Stuart Chinn is an assistant professor at the University of Oregon School of Law. He received his BA, PhD (political science) and JD degrees from Yale University, Connecticut. Previously, he was a visiting assistant professor at the University of Texas School of Law. His research and teaching interests are in constitutional law, constitutional theory, legislation, and legal and political history. He has published in the journals Law and Social Inquiry, The Journal of Law, and Polity, and has a book chapter in the edited volume Living Legislation (2012).

Part I. Introduction: Introduction. Reconstructing governance; 1. The theory and political processes of recalibration; 2. The Supreme Court and transformative recalibration; Part II. Legal Reform and its Delimitation: 3. Emancipation, the reconstruction era, and delimitation; 4. Labor rights, the new deal era, and delimitation; 5. Constitutional equal protection, the civil rights era, and delimitation; 6. Explaining judicial delimiting behavior; Part III. The Construction and Maintenance of Governance: 7. The entrenchment and maintenance of the Jim Crow order; 8. The entrenchment and maintenance of industrial pluralism; 9. The entrenchment and maintenance of the anti-classification order; 10. Explaining order-affirming and tension-managing judicial behavior; 11. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Bibliography.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
Zusatzinfo 4 Halftones, unspecified; 24 Line drawings, unspecified
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 230 mm
Gewicht 540 g
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Öffentliches Recht
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 1-107-66738-0 / 1107667380
ISBN-13 978-1-107-66738-9 / 9781107667389
Zustand Neuware
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