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Engaging with Social Rights: Procedure, Participation and Democracy in South Africa's Second Wave

Engaging with Social Rights: Procedure, Participation and Democracy in South Africa's Second Wave

Name: Engaging with Social Rights: Procedure, Participation and Democracy in South Africa's Second Wave
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108446174
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Author: Brian Ray
ISBN: 9781108446174

By Brian Ray

Cambridge University Press February 2018

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ISBN-13: 9781108446174
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: February 2018
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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With a new and comprehensive account of the South African Constitutional Court's social rights decisions, Brian Ray argues that the Court's procedural enforcement approach has had significant but underappreciated effects on law and policy and challenges the view that a stronger substantive standard of review is necessary to realize these rights.

Drawing connections between the Court's widely acclaimed early decisions and the more recent second-wave cases, Ray explains that the Court has responded to the democratic legitimacy and institutional competence concerns that consistently constrain it by developing doctrines and remedial techniques that enable activists, civil society and local communities to press directly for rights-protective policies through structured, court-managed engagement processes.

Engaging with Social Rights shows how those tools could be developed to make state institutions responsive to the needs of poor communities by giving those communities and their advocates consistent access to policy-making and planning processes.

1. Introduction

Part I. Justiciability and the First Wave:

2. The justiciability debate and the new constitution

3. The first wave cases

4. A 'curious divergence'

Part II. Procedure and the Second Wave:

5. The second-wave cases

6. Evictions and education

7. Patterns and possibilities in the second wave

Part III. Procedure's Potential:

8. The eviction model

9. Democratic engagement