Title: Images of the citizen and the state : resolving the paradox of public and private power in constitutional law /
Authors: Beeferman, Larry W.
Publisher: University Press of America,
Year: 1996
Subjects: State action (Civil rights) United States.; Constitutional torts United States
Contents: Ch. 1. Historical Origins of "State Action" Doctrine: The Civil Rights Cases -- Ch. 2. Historical Origins of Themes Related to State Action Doctrine -- Ch. 3. "State Choice": Avoiding the Incoherence of "State Action" Doctrine -- Ch. 4. "State Choice": Clarifying the Relationship Between "State Action" and Non-"State Action" Cases -- Ch. 5. "State Choice": Confirmation by a Theoretical Model of State Conduct -- Ch. 6. The Unitary Character of "State Choice": The Duality of "State Action" Doctrine Rejected -- Ch. 7. The Unitary Character of "State Choice": The Religion Clauses as a Special Case of "State Choice" -- Ch. 8. Critique of Specific "State Action" Doctrinal Techniques -- Ch. 9. "State Action" or "State Choice"?: Images of the State and the Rhetoric of the State-Citizen Relationship -- Ch. 10. "State Choice": Exposing the Confusion of "State Action" With Other Doctrines -- Conclusion: What Remains to be Done.