In the last half century since the height of the rights revolution - a period marked by significant rights expansions but limited government capacity to enforce them - efforts to defend individuals and communities rights have hinged on the effectiv...Lasīt vairāk
Increasing, political parties have adopted not only different policies, but different sets of facts. Information Wars examines the role of partisan think tanks in creating these alternate realities. Partisan think tanks such as the Heritage Foundati...Lasīt vairāk
In The Thinkers, E.J. Fagan tells the story of how partisan think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Center for American Progress displaced non-partisan experts to become the closest policy advisors to the Republican and Democratic Parti...Lasīt vairāk
The books introductory chapter presents the books core argument. It describes how education has played a central role in American political development and offers an overview of HBCUs-the distinctive educational institutions whose work has driven...Lasīt vairāk
In early 2018, the text of an employment contract surfaced on Twitter. Munger Tolles & Olson, a prominent Los Angeles law firm, required its summer associates to sign a contract that contained a binding arbitration clause. In and of itself, this was...Lasīt vairāk
While the use of arbitration in the private sector has grown dramatically in recent decades, arbitration itself is not new. Yet the practice today looks very different than it did at its origins. How did arbitration shift from providing a low cost, l...Lasīt vairāk
To achieve legitimate self-government in Americas extended Republic, the U.S. Constitution depends on Congress harmonizing the countrys factions through a process of conflict and accommodation. Why Congress demonstrates the value of this activity...Lasīt vairāk
Political Action Committees (PACs) are a prominent and contentious feature of modern American election campaigns. As organizations that channel money toward political candidates and causes, their influence in recent decades has been widely noted and...Lasīt vairāk
In Captive Market, Anna Gunderson proposes a novel explanation for why states privitize prisons. Evidence from an original dataset and interviews with private prison companies, government officials, and advocacy groups suggest that growing prison...Lasīt vairāk
A novel explanation for state prison privatization: that they do so to limit legal and political accountability for inmate lawsuits.One of the most controversial developments in the American criminal justice in the last few d...Lasīt vairāk
How and why U.S. employers are increasingly recruiting their workers into politics--and what such recruitment means for American democracy and public policy.Employers are increasingly recruiting their workers into politics to...Lasīt vairāk
Fueled by grassroots activism and a growing collection of formal political organizations, the Christian Right became an enormously influential force in American law and politics in the 1980s and 90s. While this vocal and visible political movement ha...Lasīt vairāk
Political Action Committees (PACs) are a prominent and contentious feature of modern American election campaigns. As organizations that channel money toward political candidates and causes, their influence in recent decades has been widely noted and...Lasīt vairāk
In 1999, Texas passed a landmark clean energy law, beginning a groundswell of new policies that promised to make the US a world leader in renewable energy. As Leah Stokes shows in Short Circuiting Policy, however, that policy did not lead to...Lasīt vairāk
In 1999, Texas passed a landmark clean energy law, beginning a groundswell of new policies that promised to make the US a world leader in renewable energy. As Leah Stokes shows in Short Circuiting Policy, however, that policy did not lead to...Lasīt vairāk
Activated by injustice, members of over-policed communities lead the current movement for civil rights in the United States. Responding to decades of abuse by law enforcement and an excessive criminal justice system, activists protested police brutal...Lasīt vairāk
Activated by injustice, members of over-policed communities lead the current movement for civil rights in the United States. Responding to decades of abuse by law enforcement and an excessive criminal justice system, activists protested police brutal...Lasīt vairāk
There are few intellectual movements in modern American political history more successful than the Federalist Society. Created in 1982 to counterbalance what its founders considered a liberal legal establishment, the organization gradually evolved in...Lasīt vairāk
Neoliberal policy approaches have swept over the American political economy in recent decades. In Framing Inequality, Matt Guardino focuses on the power of corporate news media in shaping how the public understands the pivotal policy debates...Lasīt vairāk
Neoliberal policy approaches have swept over the American political economy in recent decades. In Framing Inequality, Matt Guardino focuses on the power of corporate news media in shaping how the public understands the pivotal policy debates...Lasīt vairāk
