| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 379 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Reassessing the rights revolution / Lynda G. Dodd -- Approaches to enforcing the rights revolution: private civil rights litigation and the American bureaucracy / Quinn Mulroy -- Mobilizing rights at the agency level: the first interpretations of Title VII's sex provision / Jennifer Woodward -- Motivating litigants to enforce public goods: evidence from employment, housing, and voting discrimination policy / Paul Gardner -- Regulatory rights: civil rights agencies, courts, and the entrenchment of language rights / Ming Hsu Chen -- Sexual harassment and the evolving civil rights state / R. Shep Melnick -- The civil rights template and the Americans with Disabilities Act: a sociolegal perspective on the promise and limits of individual rights / Thomas F. Burke and Jeb Barnes -- Retrenching civil rights litigation: why the court succeeded where Congress failed / Stephen B. Burbank and Sean Farhang -- The contours of the Supreme Court's civil rights counterrevolution / Lynda G. Dodd -- Constraining aid, retrenching access: legal services after the rights revolution / Sarah Staszak -- Rationalizing rights: political control of litigation / David Freeman Engstrom -- The future of private enforcement of civil rights / Lynda G. Dodd. |
| Summary |
Examines the implementation of the rights revolution, bringing together a distinguished group of political scientists and legal scholars who study the roles of agencies and courts in shaping the enforcement of civil rights statutes. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Civil rights -- United States.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civil Rights. |
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Civil rights. |
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United States. |
| Added Author |
Dodd, Lynda G., 1968- editor.
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| Added Title |
Institutional perspectives on the private enforcement of civil rights in the U.S. |
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Cambridge Core.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781107164734 |
| ISBN |
9781316730713 (electronic bk.) |
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1316730719 (electronic bk.) |
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9781316691199 (electronic bk.) |
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1316691195 (electronic bk.) |
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9781107164734 (hardback) |
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9781316616505 (paperback) |
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