Includes bibliographical references (pages 613-692) and index.
Contents:
The dynamic and the constrained court -- Part 1: Civil rights. Bound for glory? : Brown and the civil rights revolution -- Constraints, conditions, and the courts -- Planting the seeds of progress? -- The current of history -- Part 2: Abortion and women's rights. Transforming women's lives? : the courts and abortion -- Liberating women? : the courts and women's rights -- The court as catalyst? -- The tide of history -- Part 3: Marriage equality. You've got that loving feeling? : the litigation campaign for marriage equality -- What a long, strange trip it's been : mobilization, countermobilization, and state action -- The times they are a-changing -- Conclusion: The fly-paper court. -- Appendixes 1-10.
Summary:
"Since its first publication in 1991, The Hollow Hope has spurred debate and challenged assumptions on both the left and the right about the ability of courts to bring about durable political and social change. What Gerald N. Rosenberg argued then, and what he confirms today through new evidence in this edition, is that it is nearly impossible to generate significant reforms through litigation: American courts are ineffective and relatively weak, far from the uniquely powerful sources for change they are often portrayed to be. This third edition includes new data and a substantially updated analysis of civil rights, abortion rights and access, women's rights, and marriage equality. Addressing changes in the political and social environment, Rosenberg draws lessons from the re-segregation of public schools, victories in marriage equality, and new obstacles to abortion access. Through these and other cases, the third edition confirms the power of the book's original explanatory framework and deepens our understanding of the limits of judicial action in support of social reform, as well as the conditions under which courts do produce change. Up-to-date, thorough, and thought-provoking, The Hollow Hope remains vital reading"-- Provided by publisher.
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