The Politics of Automobile Insurance Reform: Ideas, Institutions, and Public Policy in North America

by Edward L. Lascher

American state and Canadian provincial governments have dealt with rapidly rising auto insurance rates in different ways over the last two decades, a difference many attribute to variances in political pressure exerted by interest groups such as trial attorneys and insurance companies. Edward L. Lascher, Jr., argues that we must consider two additional factors: the importance of politicians' beliefs about the potential success of various solutions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878407391
• ISBN13: 9780878407392
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher