R Shep Melnick
Biographic Data
| ID | 704189 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Shep Melnick |
| GIVEN NAMES | R Shep |
| FAMILY NAME | Melnick |
| SIGNATURE | MELNICK R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Which “People”?
Response to Domingo Morel’s Review of The Crucible of Desegregation
Odd couples
Purpose This study aims to explore barriers and pathways to a whole-institution governance of sustainability within the working structures of universities. Design/methodology/approach This paper draws on multi-year interviews and hierarchical structure analysis of ten universities in Canada, the USA, Australia, Hong Kong, South Africa, Brazil, the UK and The Netherlands. The paper addresses existing literature that championed further integration …
An Assessment Framework for Integrated Food-Energy-Water Nexus Governance
Food-energy-water nexus governance has been promoted as an approach to integrate the management and policy of the three sectors together for coordinated governance. However, there are limited approaches to evaluate, assess, or measure the governance of the food-energy-water nexus. Assessment of the governance process is important to move the concept from conceptualization toward implementation and to understand the specific potential and limits o…
AHP-GIS analysis for flood hazard assessment of the communities nearby the world heritage site on Ayutthaya Island, Thailand
Transformation of Title IX
One civil rights-era law has reshaped American society—and contributed to the country's ongoing culture warsFew laws have had such far-reaching impact as Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Intended to give girls and women greater access to sports programs and other courses of study in schools and colleges, the law has since been used by judges and agencies to expand a wide range of antidiscrimination policies—most recently the Obama ad…
States of Dependency
If Karen Tani’s States of Dependency were a movie, we would describe it as a “prequel.” It provides the backstory to the well-known tale of the emergence of the welfare rights movement in the 1960s. This book is impressive in many ways. Tani’s research is nothing less than extraordinary. She has searched through thousands of pages of administrative archives, state court records, oral histories, and congressional documents to show us how and why f…
Martin Shapiro
Over the past half century no judicial politics scholar has been more respected or influential than Martin Shapiro. Yet it is hard to identify a school of thought one could call “Shapiroism.” Rather than offer convenient methodologies or grand theories, Shapiro provides rich empirical studies that show us how to think about the relationship between law and courts on the one hand and politics and governing on the other. Three key themes run throug…
The Upside-Down Constitution
Silverstein's Allure
Using multiple case studies, Gordon Silverstein's Law's Allure (2009) examines the many ways in which courts interact with other governing institutions. He convincingly argues that legal advocates fare best when they use the leverage created by courtroom victories to increase their influence in other arenas, particularly legislatures. His more ambitious effort to explain when court intervention improves rather than displaces politics is less succ…
Chasing the Wind
Chasing the Wind: Regulating Air Pollution in the Common Law State. By Noga Morag-Levine. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. 264p. $35.00. This book covers an impressive array of topics: the contrasting styles of air pollution regulation in the United States and Europe; the English common law of “noxious vapours” from 1611 to 1900; the origin of the highly effective British Alkali Inspectorate; the development of the common law of nuisa…
Ending welfare as we knew it
Taking Stock
Journal Article Taking Stock: American Government in the Twentieth Century. Ed. by Morton Keller and R. Shep Melnick. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. x, 330 pp. Cloth, $54.95, ISBN 0-521-65228-6. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-521-65545-5.) Get access Ellis W. Hawley Ellis W. Hawley University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, June…
Social science books of the month
Designing Judicial Review
Journal Article Designing Judicial Review: Interest Groups, Congress, and Communications Policy Get access Designing Judicial Review: Interest Groups, Congress, and Communications Policy by Charles R. Shipan. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1997. 173 pp. $42.50. R. Shep Melnick R. Shep Melnick Boston College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 113, Issue 3, Fall 199…
Regulation for Revenue
Between the lines
Judicial interpretation of federal statutes has often been at the center of political controversy in recent years. In fact, it would be difficult to find a domestic policy area in which statutory interpretation by the federal courts has not played a significant role in shaping the activities of government. In most important cases, judges base their interpretation not on the letter of the law but on their reading of its history, purpose, and spiri…
The Democratic Wish
Introduction to symposium on the new politics of public policy
After the Rights Revolution
Journal Article After the Rights Revolution: Reconceiving the Regulatory State, by Cass R. Sunstein Get access After the Rights Revolution: Reconceiving the Regulatory State by Cass R. Sunstein. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1990. 284 pp. $25.00. R. Shep Melnick R. Shep Melnick Brandeis University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 106, Issue 2, Summer 1991, Page…
Pesticides and Politics
The Politics of Partnership
In 1971 Chief Judge David Bazelon of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia marked the arrival of new era in the long and fruitful of administrative agencies and reviewing by ordering recalcitrant administrators to initiate proceedings to ban the pesticide DDT.' A dissenting judge grumbled that the court was undertaking to manage the Department of Agriculture.2 D.C. Circuit soon had many bureaucrats grumbling as well. All the c…
Regulation and the Courts
Between the lines
Judicial interpretation of federal statutes has often been at the center of political controversy in recent years. In fact, it would be difficult to find a domestic policy area in which statutory interpretation by the federal courts has not played a significant role in shaping the activities of government. In most important cases, judges base their interpretation not on the letter of the law but on their reading of its history, purpose, and spiri…
After the Rights Revolution
Journal Article After the Rights Revolution: Reconceiving the Regulatory State, by Cass R. Sunstein Get access After the Rights Revolution: Reconceiving the Regulatory State by Cass R. Sunstein. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1990. 284 pp. $25.00. R. Shep Melnick R. Shep Melnick Brandeis University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 106, Issue 2, Summer 1991, Page…
Designing Judicial Review
Journal Article Designing Judicial Review: Interest Groups, Congress, and Communications Policy Get access Designing Judicial Review: Interest Groups, Congress, and Communications Policy by Charles R. Shipan. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1997. 173 pp. $42.50. R. Shep Melnick R. Shep Melnick Boston College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 113, Issue 3, Fall 199…
Regulation and the Courts
An Assessment Framework for Integrated Food-Energy-Water Nexus Governance
Food-energy-water nexus governance has been promoted as an approach to integrate the management and policy of the three sectors together for coordinated governance. However, there are limited approaches to evaluate, assess, or measure the governance of the food-energy-water nexus. Assessment of the governance process is important to move the concept from conceptualization toward implementation and to understand the specific potential and limits o…
Silverstein's Allure
Using multiple case studies, Gordon Silverstein's Law's Allure (2009) examines the many ways in which courts interact with other governing institutions. He convincingly argues that legal advocates fare best when they use the leverage created by courtroom victories to increase their influence in other arenas, particularly legislatures. His more ambitious effort to explain when court intervention improves rather than displaces politics is less succ…
Chasing the Wind
Chasing the Wind: Regulating Air Pollution in the Common Law State. By Noga Morag-Levine. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. 264p. $35.00. This book covers an impressive array of topics: the contrasting styles of air pollution regulation in the United States and Europe; the English common law of “noxious vapours” from 1611 to 1900; the origin of the highly effective British Alkali Inspectorate; the development of the common law of nuisa…
Pesticides and Politics
Regulation and the Courts
The Politics of Partnership
In 1971 Chief Judge David Bazelon of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia marked the arrival of new era in the long and fruitful of administrative agencies and reviewing by ordering recalcitrant administrators to initiate proceedings to ban the pesticide DDT.' A dissenting judge grumbled that the court was undertaking to manage the Department of Agriculture.2 D.C. Circuit soon had many bureaucrats grumbling as well. All the c…
Pesticides and Politics
Introduction to symposium on the new politics of public policy
After the Rights Revolution
Journal Article After the Rights Revolution: Reconceiving the Regulatory State, by Cass R. Sunstein Get access After the Rights Revolution: Reconceiving the Regulatory State by Cass R. Sunstein. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1990. 284 pp. $25.00. R. Shep Melnick R. Shep Melnick Brandeis University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 106, Issue 2, Summer 1991, Page…
The Democratic Wish
Between the lines
Judicial interpretation of federal statutes has often been at the center of political controversy in recent years. In fact, it would be difficult to find a domestic policy area in which statutory interpretation by the federal courts has not played a significant role in shaping the activities of government. In most important cases, judges base their interpretation not on the letter of the law but on their reading of its history, purpose, and spiri…
Regulation for Revenue
Designing Judicial Review
Journal Article Designing Judicial Review: Interest Groups, Congress, and Communications Policy Get access Designing Judicial Review: Interest Groups, Congress, and Communications Policy by Charles R. Shipan. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1997. 173 pp. $42.50. R. Shep Melnick R. Shep Melnick Boston College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 113, Issue 3, Fall 199…
Ending welfare as we knew it
Taking Stock
Journal Article Taking Stock: American Government in the Twentieth Century. Ed. by Morton Keller and R. Shep Melnick. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. x, 330 pp. Cloth, $54.95, ISBN 0-521-65228-6. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-521-65545-5.) Get access Ellis W. Hawley Ellis W. Hawley University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, June…
Social science books of the month
Chasing the Wind
Chasing the Wind: Regulating Air Pollution in the Common Law State. By Noga Morag-Levine. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. 264p. $35.00. This book covers an impressive array of topics: the contrasting styles of air pollution regulation in the United States and Europe; the English common law of “noxious vapours” from 1611 to 1900; the origin of the highly effective British Alkali Inspectorate; the development of the common law of nuisa…
Silverstein's Allure
Using multiple case studies, Gordon Silverstein's Law's Allure (2009) examines the many ways in which courts interact with other governing institutions. He convincingly argues that legal advocates fare best when they use the leverage created by courtroom victories to increase their influence in other arenas, particularly legislatures. His more ambitious effort to explain when court intervention improves rather than displaces politics is less succ…
The Upside-Down Constitution
Martin Shapiro
Over the past half century no judicial politics scholar has been more respected or influential than Martin Shapiro. Yet it is hard to identify a school of thought one could call “Shapiroism.” Rather than offer convenient methodologies or grand theories, Shapiro provides rich empirical studies that show us how to think about the relationship between law and courts on the one hand and politics and governing on the other. Three key themes run throug…
States of Dependency
If Karen Tani’s States of Dependency were a movie, we would describe it as a “prequel.” It provides the backstory to the well-known tale of the emergence of the welfare rights movement in the 1960s. This book is impressive in many ways. Tani’s research is nothing less than extraordinary. She has searched through thousands of pages of administrative archives, state court records, oral histories, and congressional documents to show us how and why f…
Transformation of Title IX
One civil rights-era law has reshaped American society—and contributed to the country's ongoing culture warsFew laws have had such far-reaching impact as Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Intended to give girls and women greater access to sports programs and other courses of study in schools and colleges, the law has since been used by judges and agencies to expand a wide range of antidiscrimination policies—most recently the Obama ad…
AHP-GIS analysis for flood hazard assessment of the communities nearby the world heritage site on Ayutthaya Island, Thailand
An Assessment Framework for Integrated Food-Energy-Water Nexus Governance
Food-energy-water nexus governance has been promoted as an approach to integrate the management and policy of the three sectors together for coordinated governance. However, there are limited approaches to evaluate, assess, or measure the governance of the food-energy-water nexus. Assessment of the governance process is important to move the concept from conceptualization toward implementation and to understand the specific potential and limits o…
Odd couples
Purpose This study aims to explore barriers and pathways to a whole-institution governance of sustainability within the working structures of universities. Design/methodology/approach This paper draws on multi-year interviews and hierarchical structure analysis of ten universities in Canada, the USA, Australia, Hong Kong, South Africa, Brazil, the UK and The Netherlands. The paper addresses existing literature that championed further integration …
Response to Domingo Morel’s Review of The Crucible of Desegregation
Which “People”?
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