The Courts and Social Policy

by Donald L. Horowitz

Book Overview

Winner of the Louis Brownlow Award for Public Administration

In recent years, the power of American judges to make social policy has been significantly broadened. The courts have reached into many matters once thought to be beyond the customary scope of judicial decisionmaking: education and employment policy, environmental issues, prison and hospital management, and welfare administration--to name a few. This new judicial activity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815737335
• ISBN13: 9780815737339
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"