Law & Society in Transition

摘要: Year by year, law seems to penetrate ever larger realms of social, political, and economic life, generating both praise blame. Nonet Selznick's Law Society in Transition explains accessible language the primary forms as a normative phenomenon. They illustrate with great clarity fundamental difference between repressive law, riddled raw conflict accommodation special interests, responsive reasoned effort realize an ideal polity. To make jurisprudence relevant, legal, social theory must be reintegrated. As step this direction, Selznick attempt recast jurisprudential issues science perspective. construct valuable framework for analyzing assessing worth alternative modes legal ordering. The volume's most enduring contribution is authors' typology-repressive, autonomous, law. This typology original especially useful because it incorporates political aspects speaks directly contemporary struggles over proper place democratic governance. In his new introduction, Robert A. Kagan recasts classic text world. He sees world which institutions-courts, regulatory agencies, dispute resolution bodies, police departments-are periodically studied redesigned improve their ability fulfill public expectations. Schools, business corporations, governmental bureaucracies are more fully pervaded values. describes ways changes develops. It inspiring vision politically form governance, interest those sociology, philosophy, politics.