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

By: Barnes, Jeb [author.]Contributor(s): Burke, Thomas Frederick [author.]Material type: Text

TextSeries: Studies in postwar American political developmentPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780190201944 (ebook) :Subject(s): Torts -- United States | Damages -- United States | Compensation (Law) -- United States | Products liability -- Asbestos -- United States | Vaccines -- Government policy -- United States | Personal injuries -- United States | Disability insurance -- Law and legislation -- United StatesAdditional physical formats: Print version: No titleDDC classification: 346.7303 LOC classification: KF1250 | .B37 2014Online resources: Oxford scholarship online 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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