Rights and Retrenchment: The Counterrevolution Against Federal Litigation

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Rights and Retrenchment: The Counterrevolution Against Federal Litigation

Edited by Stephen B. Burbank · Sean Farhang
Cambridge University Press April 2017

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9781316502044
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
April 2017
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Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This groundbreaking book contributes to an emerging literature that examines responses to the rights revolution that unfolded in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s.

Using original archival evidence and data, Stephen B. Burbank and Sean Farhang identify the origins of the counterrevolution against private enforcement of federal law in the first Reagan Administration. They then measure the counterrevolution's trajectory in the elected branches, court rulemaking, and the Supreme Court, evaluate its success in those different lawmaking sites, and test key elements of their argument. Finally, the authors leverage an institutional perspective to explain a striking variation in their results: although the counterrevolution largely failed in more democratic lawmaking sites, in a long series of cases little noticed by the public, an increasingly conservative and ideologically polarized Supreme Court has transformed federal law, making it less friendly, if not hostile, to the enforcement of rights through lawsuits.

Table of Contents

1. Retrenching rights in institutional context: constraints and opportunities
2. The legislative counterrevolution: emergence, growth, and disappointment
3. The rulemaking counterrevolution: birth, reaction, and struggle
4. The counterrevolution in the Supreme Court: succeeding
5. The subterranean counterrevolution: the Supreme Court, the media, and public opinion
6. Rights, retrenchment, and democratic governance
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