Michigan Law Review 

About: Michigan Law Review is an academic journal published by University of Michigan Law School. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Supreme court & Constitution. It has an ISSN identifier of 0026-2234. Over the lifetime, 3173 publications have been published receiving 40681 citations. The journal is also known as: Mich. L. Rev..

Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Services

Abstract: The critical role of street-level bureaucrats -- Street-level bureaucrats as policy makers -- The problem of resources -- Goals and performance measures -- Relations with clients -- Advocacy and alienation in street-level work -- Rationing services : limitation of access and demand -- Rationing services : inequality in administration -- Controlling clients and the work situation -- The client-processing mentality -- The assault on human services : bureaucratic control, accountability, and the fiscal crisis -- The broader context of bureaucratic relations -- Support for human services : notes for reform and reconstruction -- On managing street-level bureaucracy.

Democracy and Its Critics

Abstract: The course is focused on historical texts, most of them philosophical. Context for understanding the texts and the course of democratic development will be provided in lecture and discussions, and by some background readings (Dunn). We begin with the remarkable Athenian democracy, and its frequent enemy the Spartan oligarchy. In Athens legislation was passed directly by an assembly of all citizens, and executive officials were selected by lot rather than by competitive election. Athenian oligarchs such as Plato more admired Sparta, and their disdain for the democracy became the judgment of the ages, until well after the modern democratic revolutions. Marsilius of Padua in the early Middle Ages argued for popular sovereignty. The Italian citystates of the Middle Ages did without kings, and looked back to Rome and Greece for republican models. During the English Civil War republicans debated whether the few or the many should be full citizens of the regime. The English, French, and American revolutions struggled with justifying and establishing a representative democracy suitable for a large state, and relied on election rather than lot to select officials. The English established a constitutional monarchy, admired in Europe, and adapted by the Americans in their republican constitution. The American Revolution helped inspire the French, and the French inspired republican and democratic revolution throughout Europe during the 19 century.

Storytelling for Oppositionists and Others: A Plea for Narrative

Abstract: Everyone has been writing stories these days. And I don't just mean writing about stories or narrative theory, important as those are.1 I mean actual stories, as in "once-upon-a-time" type stories. Derrick Bell has been writing "Chronicles," and in the Harvard Law Review at that.2 Others have been writing dialogues,3 stories,4 and metastories.5 Many others have been daring to become more personal in their writing, to inject narrative, perspective, and feeling how it