The Social Constitution

Embedding Social Rights Through Legal Mobilization

AvWhitney K. Taylor

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

In The Social Constitution, Whitney Taylor examines the conditions under which new constitutional rights become meaningful and institutionalized. Taylor introduces the concept of 'embedding' constitutional law to clarify how particular visions of law come to take root both socially and legally. Constitutional embedding can occur through legal mobilization, as citizens understand the law in their own way and make legal claims - or choose not to - on the basis of that understanding, and as judges decide whether and how to respond to legal claims. These interactions ultimately construct the content and strength of the constitutional order. Taylor draws on more than a year of fieldwork across Colombia and multiple sources of data, including semi-structured interviews, original surveys, legal documents, and participation observation. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-04-03
Mått:152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt:406 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Antal sidor:278
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009367776

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Lag och samhälle inom Juridik
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Statsvetenskap och politisk teori inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Whitney K. Taylor is Assistant Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University. Her research focuses on the intersection of rights, law, and contentious politics.

Recensioner i media

'Taylor's excellent book details how rights, etched into the surface of a society and its politics through inclusion in a constitutional text, slowly begin to sink down and structure interactions among citizens, the relationship between citizens and the state, and the state itself. Using extensive fieldwork and original data from Colombia and South Africa, Taylor shows how legal mobilization moves this process along – a process she describes as the social and legal embedding of the constitution. The book fills an important gap in constitutional studies by addressing the transition from rights on paper to rights in action.' Daniel M. Brinks, University of Texas at Austin

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: the social constitution; 2. Constitutional embedding through legal mobilization; 3. Expectations and transformations of Colombian constitutional law; 4. Social embedding; 5. Legal embedding; 6. Challenges to embedding: legal legibility; 7. Challenges to embedding: power struggles; 8. Challenges to embedding: workload; 9. Partial constitutional embedding: the case of South Africa; 10. Conclusion. Social constitutionalism and the politics of rights; Appendix: interviewees.