Complex Justice: The Case of Missouri v. Jenkins - Couverture souple

Dunn, Joshua M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1469614618 ISBN 13 : 9781469614618

Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2014

Synopsis

In 1987 Judge Russell Clark mandated tax increases to help pay for improvements to the Kansas City, Missouri, School District in an effort to lure white students and quality teachers back to the inner-city district. Yet even after increasing employee salaries and constructing elaborate facilities at a cost of more than $2 billion, the district remained overwhelmingly segregated and student achievement remained far below national averages. Just eight years later the U.S. Supreme Court began reversing these initiatives, signifying a major retreat from Brown v. Board of Education. In Kansas City, African American families opposed to the district court's efforts organized a takeover of the school board and requested that the court case be closed. Joshua Dunn argues that Judge Clark's ruling was not the result of tyrannical "judicial activism" but was rather the logical outcome of previous contradictory Supreme Court doctrines. High Court decisions, Dunn explains, necessarily limit the policy choices available to lower court judges, introducing complications the Supreme Court would not anticipate. He demonstrates that the Kansas City case is a model lesson for the types of problems that develop for lower courts in any area in which the Supreme Court attempts to create significant change. Dunn's exploration of this landmark case deepens our understanding of when courts can and cannot successfully create and manage public policy.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Joshua M. Dunn is assistant professor of political science at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1469614618
• ISBN 13: 9781469614618
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 238
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