Tushnet Weak Courts, Strong Rights

Judicial Review and Social Welfare Rights in Comparative Constitutional Law
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2815-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Tushnet, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xv

Part I: Strong-Form and Weak-Form Judicial Review

Chapter 1: Why Comparative Constitutional Law? 3

Chapter 2: Alternative Forms of Judicial Review 18

Chapter 3: The Possible Instability of Weak-Form Review and Its Implications 43

Part II: Legislative Responsibility for Enforcing the Constitution

Chapter 4: Why and How to Evaluate Constitutional Performance 79

Chapter 5: Constitutional Decision Making Outside the Courts 111

Part III: Judicial Enforcement of Social and Economic Rights

Chapter 6: The State Action Doctrine and Social and Economic Rights 161

Chapter 7: Structures of Judicial Review, Horizontal Effect, and Social Welfare Rights 196

Chapter 8: Enforcing Social and Economic Rights 227

Table of Cases 265

Index 269

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Tushnet is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. His many books include The New Constitutional Order and Taking the Constitution Away from the Courts (both Princeton). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.