Now in its 2010 paperback edition with a new Foreword, this
enduring analysis of law and organizations that change the
community--the core relationship between citizen and state--takes
aim at real problems in the modern system. A recognized socio-legal
classic, first published by Penn Press in 1990, studies the problem
of law and community targeted at specific problems that still
resonate: health care, medical consent, pollution, special
education, and care for the elderly and poor. Handler considers not
only theories of justice and process, but also their real
applications to people caught in the machinery of government
dependency and mystification. From the Foreword by Professor Frank
Munger, this book "grapples with one of the twentieth century's
enduring legacies--our continuing reliance upon the welfare state
to solve problems of collective existence and increasing
recognition of the limits of bureaucratic administration. Nowhere
is this more apparent than in programs for the poor, disabled,
single parents, young, elderly and others on society's margins, the
policy domain in which Joel Handler has had a major voice for much
of his career. Handler is at heart a civil rights advocate, and his
long exploration of the welfare state's promise, and its failures,
grows from concerns about those who are critically dependent upon
its entitlements. As citizens of the twenty-first century, sadder
but wiser after sub-prime mortgage and hedge-fund crises, more of
us are becoming members of this group.... His explorations always
include, as in this book, both broad intellectual inquiry and
creative syntheses leading toward new ideas and opportunities and]
he always provides us with a reason to continue to believe in
humanitarian reform." Part of the "Classics of Law and Society," a
series of the essential canon of broader law study, with
bibliography and index.
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