The Hollow Hope : Can Courts Bring About Social Change?.

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Author / Creator:	Rosenberg, Gerald N., author.
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Description:	1 online resource (541 pages).
Language:	English
Series:	American Politics and Political Economy Series American politics and political economy.
Subject:	Courts -- United States. Political questions and judicial power -- United States. Sociological jurisprudence. Civil rights -- United States. Women's rights -- United States. Social change. Civil rights. Courts. Political questions and judicial power. Social change. Sociological jurisprudence. Women's rights. United States.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11347464

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ISBN:	9780226726687 0226726681
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Summary:	In follow-up studies, dozens of reviews, and even a book of essays evaluating his conclusions, Gerald Rosenberg's criticsnot to mention his supportershave spent nearly two decades debating the arguments he first put forward in The Hollow Hope. With this substantially expanded second edition of his landmark work, Rosenberg himself steps back into the fray, responding to criticism and adding chapters on the same-sex marriage battle that ask anew whether courts can spur political and social reform. Finding that the answer is still a resounding no, Rosenberg reaffirms his powerful contention tha.

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