Law and Society in Transition: Toward Responsive Law

by PhilipSelznick (Author), PhilippeNonet (Author), RobertA.Kagan (Introduction)

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  2000

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  Explains the primary forms of law as a social, political and normative phenomenon. The authors illustrate the fundamental difference between repressive law, riddled with raw conflict and the accommodation of special interests, and responsive law, the reasoned effort to realize an ideal of polity.