How Policy Shapes Politics - Rights, Courts, Litigation, and the Struggle Over Injury Compensation (Hardcover)

The 'global rise of judicial powe' 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 the growing reliance on courts and litigation in public policy by analyzing the field of injury compensation, in which judicialized and bureaucratized programs operate side-by-side. Their study mixes quantitative data on a wide range of injury compensation policies with three in-depth case historical studies in which they trace political struggles over Social Security Disability Insurance, asbestos injury litigation, and the obscure but fascinating controversy over injuries purportedly caused by vaccines. They conclude that while social insurance programs that compensate for injury tend to bring social interests together, the use of litigation divides interests between victims and villains, winners and losers and so creates a comparatively fractious, chaotic politics.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Studies in Postwar American Political Development
Release date:	2015
First published:	2015
Authors:	Jeb E. Barnes (Associate Professor of Political Science) • Thomas F. Burke (Professor of Political Science)
Dimensions:	241 x 162 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-975611-7
Categories:	Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Civil law (general works) Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Courts & procedure > General
LSN:	0-19-975611-2
Barcode:	9780199756117

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