Adversarial Legalism and the Affordable Care Act.

Adversarial legalism is concerned with policymaking, policy implementation, and the resolution of disputes centered primarily on the work of lawyers (Kagan, 2001). Adversarial legalism in social welfare cases pits the government against an individual or a group willing to assert pertinent rights in...

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Publicado en:Virginia Social Science Journal Vol. 54; pp. 20 - 30
Autor principal: PRYCE, DANIEL K.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Virginia Social Science Association 2020
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        Policy sciences
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        Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act
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          Policy sciences
          Government policy
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          Other Individual and Family Services
          Administration of Human Resource Programs (except Education, Public Health, and Veterans' Affairs Programs)
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          Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act
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        adversarial legalism
        Affordable Care Act (ACA)
        legal mobilization
        poverty
        social welfare policy
        adversarial legalism
        Affordable Care Act (ACA)
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      ab: Adversarial legalism is concerned with policymaking, policy implementation, and the resolution of disputes centered primarily on the work of lawyers (Kagan, 2001). Adversarial legalism in social welfare cases pits the government against an individual or a group willing to assert pertinent rights in accordance with law. Alone or combined, elected officials' policy making, "neutral" adjudications by the judiciary, and/or implementation of policies by government agencies almost always lead to (further) disputation, because not all community members are pleased with a given outcome. This paper contributes to the extant literature by analyzing the adversarial legalism-Affordable Care Act (ACA) nexus. The invocation of law against government by aggrieved persons to curtail, or eliminate, the ACA, a social welfare policy, is a veritable form of adversarialism. Because the American people subscribe to the rule of law, the use of lawsuits in furthering rights assertion would remain the American way of life for the foreseeable future.
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