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The RIGHT TO JUSTICE - The Political Economy of Legal Services in the United States (Hardcover)
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The RIGHT TO JUSTICE - The Political Economy of Legal Services in the United States (Hardcover)
Series: The Locke Institute series
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'They have built a dam across the rivers of justice and then they
complain of the drought in the field below.' - With these stinging
words W. Clarke Durrant III, then Chairman of the Legal Services
Corporation, admonished the American Bar Association in 1987 for
its use of monopoly prices to exclude less affluent Americans from
access to civil justice.The Right to Justice reviews the history of
legal services in the US from its origins in the 1890s to the
multi-million dollar Federal program of the late 20th century. But
this is no ordinary text. Charles Rowley skilfully shows how
government transfers tend to be dissipated in competitive
rent-seeking by special interest groups, that much of what is left
tends to be subverted to the agendas of the more powerful groups
and that the residuals tend to be inefficiently managed by a poorly
monitored and ideologically motivated supply bureaucracy. The
upshot is that customer preferences play little or no role in the
allocation of resources within the legal services budget. In a
veritable tour de force, Charles Rowley places the US Federal legal
services program on the scholarly rack of public choice - which
analyses individual behaviour in terms of universal self-seeking
motivations in a political market. He offers a convincing unique
explanation of the forces that have subverted a well meaning
attempt to assist poor Americans into a co ordinated attack on the
central institutions of the family, capitalism and of Madisonian
Republicanism which together constitute the essence of the American
dream.
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