Citizens Divided

First Amendment defenders greeted the Court's Citizens United ruling with enthusiasm, while electoral reformers recoiled in disbelief. Post offers a constitutional theory that seeks to reconcile these sharply divided camps, and he explains how the case might have been decided in a way that would preserve free speech and electoral integrity.

Info autore

Robert C. Post is Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law and Dean of Yale Law School.Nadia Urbinati is the Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. She is the author of several books, including Democracy Disfigured: Opinion, Truth, and the People (Harvard); The Tyranny of the Moderns; Representative Democracy: Principles and Genealogy; and Mill on Democracy: From the Athenian Polis to Representative Government, which won the David and Elaine Spitz Prize for the best book in democratic theory.

Riassunto

First Amendment defenders greeted the Court’s Citizens United ruling with enthusiasm, while electoral reformers recoiled in disbelief. Post offers a constitutional theory that seeks to reconcile these sharply divided camps, and he explains how the case might have been decided in a way that would preserve free speech and electoral integrity.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Pamela S. Karlan, Lawrence Lessig, Frank I. Michelman, Robert C Post, Robert C. Post, Robert C./ Karlan Post, Post Robert C., Nadia Urbinati
• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9780674970939
• ISBN: 978-0-674-97093-9
• Pagine: 264
• Dimensioni: 147 mm x 228 mm x 16 mm
• Serie: Tanner Lectures on Human Value; The Tanner Lectures on Human Values; Tanner Lectures on Human Value; Tanner Lectures on Human Values (HUP)
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Diritto > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LAW / Legal History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, LAW / Constitutional, Politics & government, Political science & theory, Legal History, United States of America, USA, Politics and government, Political science and theory, Elections & referenda, Constitution, Constitutional & administrative law, Elections and referenda / suffrage