How Policy Shapes Politics: Rights, Courts, Litigation, and the Struggle Over Injury Compensation

by Thomas F. Burke and Jeb Barnes

Judicialization, juridification, legalization-whatever terms they use, scholars, commentators and citizens are fascinated by what one book has called "The Global Rise of Judicial Power" and seek to understand its implications for politics and society. In How Policy Shapes Politics, Jeb Barnes and Thomas F. Burke find that the turn to courts, litigation, and legal rights can have powerful political consequences.

Barnes and Burke analyze the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199756112
• ISBN13: 9780199756117
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"