Weak courts, strong rights
Subtitle: judicial review and social welfare rights in comparative constitutional law
By: Mark Tushnet.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780691130927
Subjects: Judicial review -- United States.; Social rights -- United States.; Judicial review.; Social rights.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why comparative constitutional law?; title: Alternative forms of judicial review; title: The possible instability of weak-form review and its implications; title: Why and how to evaluate consitutional performance; title: Constitutional decision making outside the courts; title: The state action doctrine and social and economic rights; title: Structures of judicial review, horizontal effect, and social welfare rights; title: Enforcing social and economic rights.