Recalibrating Reform: The Limits of Political Change

by Stuart Chinn

Some of the most important eras of reform in US history reveal a troubling pattern: often reform is compromised after the initial legislative and judicial victories have been achieved. Thus Jim Crow racial exclusions followed Reconstruction; employer prerogatives resurged after the passage of the Wagner Act in 1935; and after the civil rights reforms of the mid-twentieth century, principles of color-blindness remain dominant in key areas of constitutional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107667380
• ISBN13: 9781107667389
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 355 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"