Weak Courts, Strong Rights : Judicial Review and Social Welfare Rights in Comparative Constitutional Law /

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Unlike many other countries, the United States has few constitutional guarantees of social welfare rights such as income, housing, or healthcare. In part this is because many Americans believe that the courts cannot possibly enforce such guarantees. However, recent innovations in constitutional desi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Tushnet, Mark, 1945-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social rights.
Judicial review.
Economic rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > American Government > General.
LAW > Civil Procedure.
LAW > Legal Services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Judicial Branch.
review (function)
Droits economiques et sociaux.
Contrôle juridictionnel des lois.
Droits economiques et sociaux > États-Unis.
Contrôle juridictionnel des lois > États-Unis.
Social rights > United States.
Judicial review > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Why comparative constitutional law?
  • Alternative forms of judicial review
  • The possible instability of weak-form review and its implications
  • Why and how to evaluate consitutional performance
  • Constitutional decision making outside the courts
  • The state action doctrine and social and economic rights
  • Structures of judicial review, horizontal effect, and social welfare rights
  • Enforcing social and economic rights.

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