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Gerald N. Rosenberg

The Hollow Hope

Can Courts Bring About Social Change? Second Edition

534 pages, 8 line drawings, 35 tables  6 x 9  © 1991, 2008
Series: American Politics and Political Economy Series

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ISBN: 9780226726700   Published May 2008

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ISBN: 9780226726717   Published May 2008

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List of Tables and Figures        
Preface to the Second Edition    
Preface to the First Edition
Introduction 

1. The Dynamic and the Constrained Court
 
Part 1  ·  Civil Rights
 
Introduction
2. Bound for Glory? Brown and the Civil Rights Revolution
3. Constraints, Conditions, and the Courts
4. Planting the Seeds of Progress?
5. The Current of History
 
Part 2  ·  Abortion and Women’s Rights
 
Introduction
6. Transforming Women’s Lives? The Courts and Abortion
7. Liberating Women? The Courts and Women’s Rights
8. The Court as Catalyst?
9. The Tide of History
 
Part 3  ·  The Environment, Reapportionment, and Criminal Law
 
Introduction 
10. Cleaning House? The Courts, the Environment, and Reapportionment
11. Judicial Revolution? Litigation to Reform the Criminal Law
 
Part 4  ·  Same-Sex Marriage
Introduction
12. You’ve Got That Loving Feeling? The Litigation Campaign for Same-Sex Marriage
13. Confusing Rights with Reality: Litigation for Same-Sex Marriage and the Counter-Mobilization of Law
14. Conclusion: The Fly-Paper Court

Epilogue
Appendices
1. Black Children in Elementary and Secondary School with Whites: 1954–72
2. Blacks at Predominantly White Public Colleges and Universities
3. Black Voter Registration in the Southern States: Pre- and Post-Voting Rights Act
4. Laws and Actions Designed to Preserve Segregation
5. Method for Obtaining Information for Table 4.1 and Figure 4.1
6. Illegal Abortions
7. Method for Obtaining Information for Tables 8.1A, 8.1B, 8.2A, and 8.2B, and for Figures 8.1 and 8.2
8. Coding Rules and Methods for Obtaining Information for Tables 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 13.6, and 13.7
Case References
References
Index
Subjects



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