Ward / Castillo The Judiciary and American Democracy

Alexander Bickel, the Countermajoritarian Difficulty, and Contemporary Constitutional Theory
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8277-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 204 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in American Constitutionalism

Examines recent debates in constitutional theory in light of the work of Alexander Bickel.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ward, Kenneth D.

Castillo, Cecilia R.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Kenneth D. Ward
1. Principle, Prudence, and Judicial Power
Robert F. Nagel
2. The Jurisprudence of Constitutional Regimes: Alexander Bickel and Cass Sunstein
Mark Tushnet
3. Alexander Bickel and the New Judicial Minimalism
Christopher J. Peters and Neal Devins
4. Democratic Constitutionalism: The Bickel-Ackerman Dialectic
David M. Golove
5. The Countermajoritarian Difficulty: Tradition Versus Original Meaning
Stanley C. Brubaker
6. An Empirical Analysis of Alexander Bickel’s The Least Dangerous Branch
Terri Peretti
7. Bickel and the New Proceduralists
Kenneth D. Ward
8. Constitutional Theory and the Faces of Power
Keith E. Whittington
List of Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

At Texas State University at San Marcos, Kenneth D. Ward is Associate Professor and Cecilia R. Castillo is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science. Castillo is the coeditor (with Kenneth L. Grasso) of Liberty Under Law: American Constitutionalism, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.