How policy shapes politics : rights, courts, litigation, and the struggle over injury compensation / Jeb Barnes and Thomas F. Burke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnes, Jeb, author.

Burke, Thomas Frederick, author.

Series:

Oxford studies in postwar American political development.

Studies in postwar American political development

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Torts--United States.

Torts.

Damages--United States.

Damages.

Compensation (Law)--United States.

Compensation (Law).

Products liability--Asbestos--United States.

Products liability.

Vaccines--Government policy--United States.

Vaccines.

Personal injuries--United States.

Personal injuries.

Disability insurance--Law and legislation--United States.

Disability insurance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Congressional hearings and the politics of adversarial and bureaucratic legalism

Social security disability insurance : the politics of bureaucratic legalism

Asbestos injury compensation : the politics of adversarial legalism and layered policies

Vaccine injury compensation : the politics of shifting policies.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-020194-0

0-19-020193-2

OCLC:

922973147