The Politics of Rights: Lawyers, Public Policy, and Political Change

by Stuart A. Scheingold

Book Overview

Stuart A. Scheingold's landmark work introduced a new understanding of the contribution of rights to progressive social movements, and thirty years later it still stands as a pioneering and provocative work, bridging political science and sociolegal studies. In the preface to this new edition, the author provides a cogent analysis of the burgeoning scholarship that has been built on the foundations laid in his original volume. A new foreword from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472030051
• ISBN13: 9780472030057
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 8.1"