Political Freedom: Association, Political Purposes and the Law

by Howard Davis

Overview

Howard Davis looks at how the presence of political motives, when balanced against other motives, affects the legal character of the action, and asks why common law and statute should differentiate the political from the nonpolitical. An original and important contribution to the debate on the nature of an "effective democracy" and the legal rules necessary to establish and sustain it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826450302
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/21/2001
Series:	Citizenship and the Law Series
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Howard Davis is Professor of Architecture at the University of Oregon and director of the Collaborative for Inclusive Urbanism.

He is a co-author, with Christopher Alexander and others, of The Production of Houses (1985), author of The Culture of Building (1999, 2006), and of Living Over the Store: Architecture and Local Urban Life (2012). He was the founding co-editor of Buildings & Landscapes: Jourbanal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, book review editor of the Vernacular Architecture Newsletter, a member of the Board of Directors of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, and a member of the editorial boards of Urban Morphology, the Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review and the Jourbanal of Architectural Education.

Editorial Reviews

Davis (Law School at Southampton Institute, UK) describes the liberties and rights of persons, in the UK, to take action intended to influence government policy, the law, and public opinion. He starts from the assumption that effective political action is conducted through groups and associations acting in their own interests, and discusses the limits and constraints the law imposes on such groups if they seek to take political action, looking at groups such as charities, trade unions, companies, and political parties. He asks why common law and statute should differentiate the political from the non-political. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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