Law and American Political Development

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12795263
AutoresPamela Brandwein (0000-0003-1048-5710, University of Michigan, autor de correspondencia)
Año2011
Volumen7
Número1
Páginas187-216
Fecha de publicación2011-03-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAnnual Review of Law and Social Science (BOOK_SERIES)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1550-3585 • E-ISSN: 1550-3631
EditorialAnnual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-042710-092852
OpenAlexW2138489942
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas67

This article explores a tension in the Law and American Political Development (APD) literature over the conceptualization of an institution. Moving between two fields in mutual exchange—historical-interpretive scholarship on law/courts and scholarship on APD—the article shows how concerns and sensibilities seem to converge yet are also in conflict. The article argues that a misleading opposition between institutions and discourse is a source of that conflict, while revisiting various theoretical frameworks in an effort to overcome that opposition. Recent work on race, law, and development during the Jim Crow era is taken up with the aim of showing how we might think more capaciously about the formal and discursive properties of institutions

Conceptualization · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Legal and Constitutional Studies · Legal Education and Practice Innovations