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Across the globe, law in all its variety is becoming more central
to politics, public policy, and everyday life. For over four
decades, Robert A. Kagan has been a leading scholar of the causes
and consequences of the march of law that is characteristic of late
20th and early 21st century governance. In this volume, top
sociolegal scholars use Kagan's concepts and methods to examine the
politics of litigation and regulation, both in the United States
and around the world. Through studies of civil rights law, tobacco
politics, "Eurolegalism," Russian auto accidents, Australian coal
mines, and California prisons, these scholars probe the politics of
different forms of law, and the complex path by which "law on the
books" shapes social life. Like Kagan's scholarship, Varieties of
Legal Order moves beyond stale debates about litigiousness and
overregulation, and invites us to think more imaginatively about
how the rise of law and legalism will shape politics and social
life in the 21st century.
This powerful resource identifies wide-scale health challenges
facing a rapidly urbanizing planet--including key concerns in
nutrition, health status, health care, and safety--and strategies
toward possible solutions. Theoretical and empirical analysis
focuses on maximizing the benefits of urban living and minimizing
negative outcomes across areas for improvement (health education,
maternal and child health) and threats to well-being (noise
pollution, drug counterfeiting). For each challenge, contributors
discuss implications for health, specific practices that fuel them,
and emerging ideas for solving them efficiently and effectively.
Not only are these issues of immediate salience, they will become
dangerously urgent in years to come. Included in the coverage: Food
fortification and other innovations to address child malnutrition.
Anti-trafficking innovations, urbanization, and global health.
Innovations to address global climate change in cities. Innovations
in disaster preparedness: implications for urbanization and health.
Medical diagnostic innovations in urban developing settings. The
case for comprehensive, integrated, and standardized measures of
health in cities. Recent studies suggest that urban areas will be a
large majority in both the developing and developed worlds.
Innovations to Address Urbanization & Global Health is a
proactive idea book to be read by undergraduates, graduate students
and researchers in public and urban health.
Across the globe, law in all its variety is becoming more central
to politics, public policy, and everyday life. For over four
decades, Robert A. Kagan has been a leading scholar of the causes
and consequences of the march of law that is characteristic of late
20th and early 21st century governance. In this volume, top
sociolegal scholars use Kagan's concepts and methods to examine the
politics of litigation and regulation, both in the United States
and around the world. Through studies of civil rights law, tobacco
politics, "Eurolegalism," Russian auto accidents, Australian coal
mines, and California prisons, these scholars probe the politics of
different forms of law, and the complex path by which "law on the
books" shapes social life. Like Kagan's scholarship, Varieties of
Legal Order moves beyond stale debates about litigiousness and
overregulation, and invites us to think more imaginatively about
how the rise of law and legalism will shape politics and social
life in the 21st century.
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Lawsuits over coffee burns, playground injuries, even bad teaching:
litigation 'horror stories' create the impression that Americans
are greedy, quarrelsome, and sue-happy. The truth, as this book
makes clear, is quite different. What Thomas Burke describes in
"Lawyers, Lawsuits, and Legal Rights" is a nation not of litigious
citizens, but of litigious policies - laws that promote the use of
litigation in resolving disputes and implementing public policies.
This book is a cogent account of how such policies have come to
shape public life and everyday practices in the United States. As
litigious policies have proliferated, so have struggles to limit
litigation - and these struggles offer insight into the nation's
court-centered public policy style. Burke focuses on three cases:
the effort to block the Americans with Disabilities Act; an attempt
to reduce accident litigation by creating a no-fault auto insurance
system in California; and the enactment of the Vaccine Injury
Compensation Act. These cases suggest that litigious policies are
deeply rooted in the American constitutional tradition. Burke shows
how the diffuse, divided structure of American government, together
with the anti-statist ethos of American political culture, creates
incentives for political actors to use the courts to address their
concerns. The first clear and comprehensive account of the national
politics of litigation, his work provides a new way to understand
and address the 'litigiousness' of American society.
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.
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