The Structure of American Legal Institutions and the Diffusion of Wrongful-Discharge Laws, 1978-1999.
This article evaluates bow the social structure of American legal institutions influenced the diffusion of wrongful-discharge laws over the period 1978-1999, and it assesses whether economic or political variables influenced the diffusion process. The results are surprising and quite striking. Prece...
| Published in: | Law & Society Review Vol. 42; no. 4; pp. 833 - 864 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
December 2008
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