{"product_id":"neoconservative-politics-and-the-supreme-court-law-power-and-democracy-hardback-9780814764664","title":"Neoconservative Politics and the Supreme Court; Law, Power, and Democracy (Hardback) 9780814764664","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eNeoconservative Politics and the Supreme Court\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLaw, Power, and Democracy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eStephen M. Feldman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780814764664\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 3 December 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e235 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.499 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"A remarkably concise and accessible overview first of the rise of neoconservatism, and then of its impact on the Supreme Court. Consistently illuminating and challenging.\" - Sanford Levinson,author of Framed: America's 51 Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance \"A helpful explanation of the Supreme Court's latest lurch to the right. By showing how many of the Court's latest decisions can be seen as expressions of the neoconservative impulse, Feldman exposes how deeply politics, personalities, and convictions shape judicial behavior.\" - Richard Delgado,University Professor of Law, Seattle University \"In forthright prose laying out a provocative and subtle argument, Feldman places todays Supreme Court in a broad intellectual and historical context, showing how the Courts conservatives cut and paste themes of neo-conservative nostalgia for an irretrievable past of republican democracy into more traditionalist conservative responses to the pluralist democracy we have and are likely to continue to have.\" - Mark Tushnet,author of A Court Divided: The Rehnquist Court and the Future of Constitutional Law \"In this concise and clearly written book, Stephen M. Feldman argues that the conservative ascendance in the United States since the presidency of Ronald Reagan can be understood as an effort to reestablish the legal and political order that existed prior to the New Deal. He labels this pre-New Deal order 'republican democracy,' distinct from the 'pluralist democracy' that characterizes our politics since 1937. The heart of the book is the analysis of the Supreme Court and how its conservative majority has pushed this agenda....[T]his is a provocative and compelling argument.\" - Robert B. Horwitz (Political Science Quarterly) \"This is a well-written, interesting, and useful book. Summing Up: Highly recommended.\" (CHOICE)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this concise, timely book, constitutional law expert Stephen M. Feldman draws on neoconservative writings to explore the rise of the neocons and their influence on the Supreme Court. Neocons burst onto the political scene in the early 1980s via their assault on pluralist democracy's ethical relativism, where no pre-existing or higher principles limit the agendas of interest groups. Instead, they advocated for a resurrection of republican democracy, which declares that virtuous citizens and officials pursue the common good. Yet despite their original goals, neocons quickly became an interest group themselves, competing successfully within the pluralist democratic arena. When the political winds shifted in 2008, however, neocons found themselves shorn of power in Congress and the executive branch. But portentously, they\u003cbr\u003e still controlled the Supreme Court. \u003cbr\u003e Neoconservative Politics and the Supreme Court explains how and why the neoconservatives criticized but operated within pluralist democracy, and, most important, what the entrenchment of neocons on the Supreme Court means for present and future politics and law.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"NYU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52563934413080,"sku":"9780814764664","price":38.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/neoconservative-politics-and-the-supreme-court-law-power-and-democracy-hardback-9780814764664","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}