How Policy Shapes Politics: Rights, Courts, Litigation, and the Struggle Over Injury Compensation (Studies in Postwar American Political Development)

Barnes, Jeb E.; Burke, Thomas F.

ISBN 10: 0199756112 / ISBN 13: 9780199756117

Published by Oxford University Press, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How Policy Shapes Politics: Rights, Courts, Litigation, and the Struggle Over Injury Compensation (Studies in Postwar American Political Development)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199756112
• ISBN 13: 9780199756117
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

Comparing judicialized and bureaucratized injury compensation policies, Jeb Barnes and Thomas F. Burke conclude that litigation divides interests between victims and villains and winners and losers, and so creates a comparatively fractious, chaotic politics.

About the Author

Jeb Barnes is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Southern California. A former litigator and research fellow with the Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Program, he is the author of Overruled? Legislative Overrides, Pluralism and Contemporary Court-Congress Relations and Dust-Up: Asbestos Litigation and the Failure of Commonsense Policy Reform; the co-author with Nicholas Weller of Finding Pathways: Mixed-Method Research for Studying Causal Pathways; and the co-editor with Mark Miller of Making Policy, Making Law: An Interbranch Perspective.

Thomas F. Burke is Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard and at the University of California-Berkeley, and a research fellow at the Brookings Institution and with the Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Program. He is the co-author with Lief Carter of Reason in Law and the author of Lawyers, Lawsuits and Legal Rights.