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Epp, Charles R.

 
9780226211626: The Rights Revolution: Lawyers, Activists, and Supreme Courts in Comparative Perspective
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ISBN 10: 0226211622 ISBN 13: 9780226211626
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

It is well known that the scope of individual rights has expanded dramatically in the United States over the last half-century. Less well known is that other countries have experienced "rights revolutions" as well. Charles R. Epp argues that, far from being the fruit of an activist judiciary, the ascendancy of civil rights and liberties has rested on the democratization of access to the courts—the influence of advocacy groups, the establishment of governmental enforcement agencies, the growth of financial and legal resources for ordinary citizens, and the strategic planning of grass roots organizations. In other words, the shift in the rights of individuals is best understood as a "bottom up," rather than a "top down," phenomenon.

The Rights Revolution is the first comprehensive and comparative analysis of the growth of civil rights, examining the high courts of the United States, Britain, Canada, and India within their specific constitutional and cultural contexts. It brilliantly revises our understanding of the relationship between courts and social change.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Charles R. Epp is University Distinguished Professor in the School of Public Affairs & Administration at the University of Kansas. He is the author of The Rights Revolution: Lawyers, Activists, and Supreme Courts in Comparative Perspective; Making Rights Real: Activists, Bureaucrats, and the Creation of the Legalistic State; and is the co-author of Pulled Over: How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226211622
ISBN 13 
9780226211626
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Anzahl der Seiten
342
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