The Courts in American Public Culture

In American public imagination, courts are powerful but also impotent. They are guardians of citizens' rights but also agents of corporate wealth; simultaneously the least dangerous branch and the ultimate arbiters of fairness and justice. After recounting the social science literature on the m...

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Main Author: Silbey, Susan S. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Anthropology Program (Contributor), Sloan School of Management (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MIT Press, 2014-09-04T16:08:38Z.
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