Law's Allure: How Law Shapes, Constrains, Saves, and Kills Politics.

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Law's Allure

By Gordon Silverstein

In Law's Allure, Gordon Silverstein describes the relationship between law and politics and the process of what he terms "juridification," the increasing replacement of political dialogue with legal language and legal processes and the replacement of political decisions with judicial ones. Silverstein looks at both sides of the relationship between law and politics, from the divide between politicians and the courts over campaign financing to the constructive...