The Politics of Legalism
Edited by John Barnes, Thomas Burke, Malcolm Feeley
To Be Published February 1st 2014 by Routledge – 224 pages
Series: Law, Courts and Politics
Description
Using the work of Robert A. Kagan’s intellectual contribution on the intensification of law, leading authorities in the study of the politics of regulation and litigation examine the consequences of the expansion and intensification of law, both in the United States and the rest of the world.
- Part One considers bureaucratic legalism, a terrain in which popular and political discourse often conceives as a pitched battle between business and government, and in which claims about quantity—"too much" and "too little"—take center stage. Here, the contributors examine the many ways in which regulators and the regulated cooperate, and the extent to which regulated entities internalize norms and practices associated with bureaucratic.
- Part Two considers adversarial legalism, a term that even among academics is often reduced to "litigiousness." The chapters in this section show that adversarial legalism is a much more complex, contingent, and multi-sided phenomenon than the popular debate over litigiousness suggests.
- Part III examines Kagan’s core concepts in a comparative framework. Although some sometimes treat adversarial legalism as an American disease, scholars are increasingly finding it proliferating elsewhere, and debating whether it can take a prominent role in nations quite different in tradition and political structure from the United States.
Across the globe, law and legalism in all its forms, bureaucratic and adversarial, is becoming more intense, and thus more central to politics, public policy and everyday life. The consequences are profound. Yet commentary is often stuck on old questions. Does the intensification of law reflect the withering of other social institutions? Is it a sign of moral decay? Or is it, on another account, signaling a new era of respect for universal human rights? The Politics of Legalism takes us instead in directions relatively unexplored by both scholars and popular commentators on law. Like Kagan’s scholarship, it 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.
Contents
Introduction Tom Burke and Jeb Barnes Part 1: Bureaucratic Legalism 1. Regulatory Encounters of the Green Kind Keith Hawkins 2. Explaining Business Participation in Voluntary Environmental Programs Cary Coglianese with Jonathan Borck 3. Overcoming the Disconnect: Internal Regulation, OHS & the Mining Industry Neil Gunningham Part 2: Adversarial Legalism 4. Adversarial Legalism and the Civil Rights State R. Shep Melnick 5. Seeing Through the Smoke: Adversarial Legalism and U.S. Tobacco Politics Michael McCann 6. How Adversarial Legalism Affects American Politics Tom Burke and Jeb Barnes Part 3. Comparisons 7. Common Legalism: On the Common Law Origins of American Legal Culture Noga Morag-Levine 8. Mobilizing Law in Contemporary Russia Kathryn Hendley 9. Regulatory Style in the Global South Lesley McAllister Conclusion
Author Bio
John Barnes is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Southern California.
Thomas Burke is Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College.
Malcolm Feeley is Claire Sanders Clements Dean's Chair Professor of Law at the University of California-Berkeley.Name: The Politics of Legalism (Hardback) – Routledge
Description: Edited by John Barnes, Thomas Burke, Malcolm Feeley.
Using the work of Robert A. Kagan’s intellectual contribution on the intensification of law, leading authorities in the study of the politics of regulation and litigation examine the consequences of the expansion and intensification of law,...
Categories: Law & Courts, Public Policy, Comparative Politics, International Law, Legislative Politics