Making Rights Real: Activists, Bureaucrats, and the Creation of the Legalistic State (Chicago Series in Law and Society) - Softcover

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Epp, Charles R.

 
9780226211657: Making Rights Real: Activists, Bureaucrats, and the Creation of the Legalistic State (Chicago Series in Law and Society)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226211657 ISBN 13: 9780226211657
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

It’s a common complaint: the United States is overrun by rules and procedures that shackle professional judgment, have no valid purpose, and serve only to appease courts and lawyers. Charles R. Epp argues, however, that few Americans would want to return to an era without these legalistic policies, which in the 1970s helped bring recalcitrant bureaucracies into line with a growing national commitment to civil rights and individual dignity.

Focusing on three disparate policy areas—workplace sexual harassment, playground safety, and police brutality in both the United States and the United Kingdom—Epp explains how activists and professionals used legal liability, lawsuit-generated publicity, and innovative managerial ideas to pursue the implementation of new rights. Together, these strategies resulted in frameworks designed to make institutions accountable through intricate rules, employee training, and managerial oversight. Explaining how these practices became ubiquitous across bureaucratic organizations, Epp casts today’s legalistic state in an entirely new light.

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Charles R. Epp is associate professor in the Department of Public Administration at the University of Kansas.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226211657
ISBN 13 
9780226211657
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Auflage
1
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367
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