Image from Amazon.com
How policy shapes politics : rights, courts, litigation, and the struggle over injury compensation / Jeb Barnes and Thomas F. Burke.
By: Barnes, Jeb [author.]
.Contributor(s): Burke, Thomas Frederick [author.].Series: Studies in postwar American political development: Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780190201944 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Torts -- United States | Damages -- United States | Compensation (Law) -- United States | Products liability -- Asbestos -- United States | Vaccines -- Government policy -- United States | Personal injuries -- United States | Disability insurance -- Law and legislation -- United StatesAdditional Physical Form: Print version 9780199756117DDC classification: 346.7303 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: The 'global rise of judicial power' has been called one of the most significant developments in late twentieth and early twenty-first-century politics. In this book, Jeb Barnes and Thomas F. Burke examine the political consequences of 'judicialization' - the growing reliance on courts, rights and litigation in public policy - by analyzing the field of injury compensation, in which judicialized and bureaucratized programmes operate side-by-side.
| Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ebook | House of Lords Library - Palace Online access | 1 | Available |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The 'global rise of judicial power' has been called one of the most significant developments in late twentieth and early twenty-first-century politics. In this book, Jeb Barnes and Thomas F. Burke examine the political consequences of 'judicialization' - the growing reliance on courts, rights and litigation in public policy - by analyzing the field of injury compensation, in which judicialized and bureaucratized programmes operate side-by-side.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 18, 2014).