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This page intentionally left blank LAW’SALLURE HowLawShapes,Constrains,Saves,andKillsPolitics Judicial and political power are inextricably linked in America, but, by the time John Roberts and Samuel Alito joined the Supreme Court, that link seemed more important, more significant, and more pervasive than ever before.Fromwarpowerstoabortion,fromtobaccotointegration,fromthe environmenttocampaignfinance,Americansincreasinglyturnawayfromthe political tools of negotiating, bargaining, and persuading to embrace what theyhavecometobelieveisamoreeffective,moreefficient,andevenmore just world of formal rules, automated procedures, litigation, and judicial decisionmaking. Usingmorethantencontroversialpolicycasestudies,Law’sAllure:How LawShapes,Constrains,Saves,andKillsPoliticsdrawsaroadmaptohelp politicians, litigators, judges, policy advocates, and those who study them understand the motives and incentives that encourage efforts to legalize, formalize, and judicialize the political process and American public policy, aswellastherisksandrewardsthesechoicescangenerate. GordonSilversteinisassistantprofessorofpoliticalscienceattheUniversity of California, Berkeley. A former journalist with a PhD from Harvard Uni- versity, Professor Silverstein also has taught at Rice University, Dartmouth College,Lewis&ClarkCollege,andtheUniversityofMinnesota.Professor SilversteinhaswrittenanumberofarticlesandbookchaptersonAmerican politics,theseparationofpowers,andjudicialpowerincomparativeperspec- tiveandistheauthorofImbalanceofPowers:ConstitutionalInterpretation andtheMakingofAmericanForeignPolicy(1996). Law’s Allure How Law Shapes, Constrains, Saves, and Kills Politics Gordon Silverstein UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley CAMBRIDGEUNIVERSITYPRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo, Delhi, Dubai, Tokyo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521896474 © Gordon Silverstein 2009 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published in print format 2009 ISBN-13 978-0-511-65036-9 eBook (NetLibrary) ISBN-13 978-0-521-89647-4 Hardback ISBN-13 978-0-521-72108-0 Paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of urls for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. For Nelson W. Polsby and our students, past, present, and future contents Acknowledgments pageix Introduction:Law’sAllure:TheJuridificationofAmerican PoliticsandPublicPolicy 1 PART I. LAW’S ALLURE: WHY, WHY NOW, AND WHY IT MATTERS 1. Motives,Incentives,Patterns,andProcess 15 2. WhyNow?FromMayandMayNot–ToMust 42 3. LawIsDifferent:ThePowerofPrecedent 63 PART II. LAW’S ALLURE: PATTERNS, PROCESS, AND CAUTIONARY TALES 4. PovertyandAbortion:TheRisksandRewardsofa JudicialStrategy 95 5. EnvironmentalRegulation:AConstructivePattern 128 6. CampaignFinance:ADeconstructivePattern 152 7. TheSeparationofPowers:WhentheCourtSays Yes–andNo 175 8. WarPowersandPrecedent:WhentheCourtIsReluctant toIntervene 209 PART III. LAW’S ALLURE: COSTS AND CONSEQUENCES 9. Tobacco:HowLawSaves–andKillsPolitics 245 Conclusion:ThePromiseandPerilofLaw’sAllure 266 Bibliography 287 Index 307 vii
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