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Evolution Or Expediency: The United Nations' Response To The Disruption Of Democracy, Douglas Lee Donoho
Evolution Or Expediency: The United Nations' Response To The Disruption Of Democracy, Douglas Lee Donoho
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Democracy And Feminism , Tracy E. Higgins
Democracy And Feminism , Tracy E. Higgins
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Although feminist legal theory has had an important impact on most areas of legal doctrine and theory over the last two decades, its contribution to the debate over constitutional interpretation has been comparatively small. In this Article, Professor Higgins explores reasons for the limited dialogue between mainstream constitutional theory and feminist theory concerning questions of democracy, constitutionalism, and judicial review. She argues that mainstream constitutional theory tends to take for granted the capacity of the individual to make choices, leaving the social construction of those choices largely unexamined. In contrast, feminist legal theory's emphasis on the importance of constraints on …
The System Worked: Our Schizophrenic Stance On Welfare, Robert L. Tsai
The System Worked: Our Schizophrenic Stance On Welfare, Robert L. Tsai
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This is a review of Steven M. Teles's book, Whose Welfare? AFDC and Elite Politics (University Press of Kansas, 1996), which argues that welfare policy reflects a dynamic of elite dissensus, in which public policy fails to reflect popular opinion. I make two central points in the review: first, there are reasons to believe that welfare policy does, in fact, reflect a deeply conflicted American electorate; and second, such a conflict may reveal a healthy deliberative order struggling to reconcile changing priorities with enduring values.