The Rights Revolution Continues: Why New Rights are Born (and Old Rights Rarely Die)

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Thomas F. Burke

Wellesley College, Political Science Department

Date Written: 2001

Abstract

Why do Americans, as Alexis de Tocqueville first noticed, turn public policy issues into matters of legal right? What exactly are the forces that created the rights revolution? And how will the continuing expansion of rights policies shape American politics? This Article draws on recent developments in rights politics and on academic analyses of the politics of public policymaking in order to answer these questions.

Keywords: rights, regulation by litigation, litigiousness

Suggested Citation

Burke, Thomas F., The Rights Revolution Continues: Why New Rights are Born (and Old Rights Rarely Die) (2001). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2556451 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2556451

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