The death penalty on the ballot : American democracy and the fate of capital punishment /

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Author / Creator:Sarat, Austin, author.
Imprint:Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
©2019
Description:1 online resource (x, 194 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12576609
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Other authors / contributors:Malague, John, author.
Wishloff, Sarah, author.
ISBN:9781108699617
1108699618
9781108482103
9781108711579
1108482104
110871157X
Notes:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Mar 2019).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"Investigating the attitudes about capital punishment in contemporary America, this book poses the question: can ending the death penalty be done democratically? How is it that a liberal democracy like the United States shares the distinction of being a leading proponent of the death penalty with some of the world's most repressive regimes? Reporting on the first study of initiative and referendum processes used to decide the fate of the death penalty in the United States, this book explains how these processes have played an important, but generally neglected, role in the recent history of America's death penalty. While numerous scholars have argued that the death penalty is incompatible with democracy and that it cannot be reconciled with democracy's underlying commitment to respect the equal dignity of all, Professor Austin Sarat offers the first study of what happens when the public gets to decide on the fate of capital punishment"--
Other form:Print version 9781108482103

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