Weak Courts, Strong Rights : : Judicial Review and Social Welfare Rights in Comparative Constitutional Law / / Mark Tushnet.

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• VerfasserIn: Tushnet, Mark,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)

Unlike many other countries, the United States has few constitutional guarantees of social welfare rights such as income, housing, or healthcare. In part this is because many Americans believe that the courts cannot possibly enforce such guarantees. However, recent innovations in constitutional desi...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Part I: Strong-Form and Weak-Form Judicial Review
• Chapter 1. Why Comparative Constitutional Law?
• Chapter 2. Alternative Forms of Judicial Review
• Chapter 3. The Possible Instability of Weak-Form Review and Its Implications
• Part II: Legislative Responsibility for Enforcing the Constitution
• Chapter 4. Why and How to Evaluate Constitutional Performance
• Chapter 5. Constitutional Decision Making Outside the Courts
• Part III: Judicial Enforcement of Social and Economic Rights
• Chapter 6. The State Action Doctrine and Social and Economic Rights
• Chapter 7. Structures of Judicial Review, Horizontal Effect, and Social Welfare Rights
• Chapter 8. Enforcing Social and Economic Rights
• Table of Cases
• Index