Overview
In 1973, a group of California lawyers formed a non-profit, public-interest legal foundation dedicated to defending conservative principles in court. Calling themselves the Pacific Legal Foundation, they declared war on the U.S. regulatory state--the sets of rules, legal precedents, and bureaucratic processes that govern the way Americans do business. Believing that the growing size and complexity of government regulations threatened U.S. economy and infringed on property rights, Pacific Legal Foundation began to file a series of lawsuits challenging the government's power to plan the use of private land or protect environmental qualities. By the end of the decade, they had been joined in this effort by spin-off legal foundations across the country.The Other Rights Revolution explains how a little-known collection of lawyers and politicians--with some help from angry property owners and bulldozer-driving Sagebrush Rebels--tried to bring liberal government to heel in the final decades of the twentieth century. Decker demonstrates how legal and constitutional battles over property rights, preservation, and the environment helped to shape the political ideas and policy agendas of modern conservatism. By uncovering the history--including the regionally distinctive experiences of the American West--behind the conservative mobilization in the courts, Decker offers a new interpretation of the Reagan-era right.
Full Product Details
Author: Jefferson Decker (Assistant Professor of American Studies and Political Science, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Political Science, Rutgers University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 23.90cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 16.30cm
Weight: 0.570kg
ISBN: 9780190467302
ISBN 10: 0190467304
Pages: 298
Publication Date: 29 September 2016
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
.. .the rewards of The Other Rights Revolution are considerable as Decker sheds light on how much can be learned about modern political trends by exploring the legal activism of the 1970s and 1980s. -- The Journal of American History
...the rewards of The Other Rights Revolution are considerable as Decker sheds light on how much can be learned about modern political trends by exploring the legal activism of the 1970s and 1980s. -- The Journal of American History
Author Information
Jefferson Decker is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Political Science at Rutgers University
