TY - JOUR
AU - Tarr, G. Alan
AB - Interest Groups and Judicial Federalism: Organizational Litigation in State Judiciaries, by Donald J. Farole, Jr., Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998, 224 pp., $57.95 cloth. During the 1970s, state courts rediscovered state declarations of rights. In some heralded instances, courts used those guarantees to provide greater protection for rights than was available under the U.S. Constitution. Although this new judicial federalism, as it has been called, stimulated schol- arly interest in state courts, legal scholars initially concentrated on describing innovative state rulings or debating the legitimacy of relying on state con- stitutional protections. In recent years, however, scholars have begun to look at state courts' rulings in a broader context, analyzing the factors that promote state judicial activism, the patterns of constitutional litigation in the states, and the consequences of state-court rulings. Interest Groups and Judicial Federalism contributes to this developing literature by analyzing the factors that influence interest groups' participation in constitutional litiga- tion in state courts and the legal arguments that they employ in such litiga- tion. In addition, by showing how constitutional litigation originates and develops in those courts, the book sets the stage for fruitful comparisons with group litigation in federal courts. Unfortunately, the design of this 
TI - Book Reviews
JF - Publius: The Journal of Federalism
DO - 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a029994
DA - 1998-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/book-reviews-kgE6LUXTa0
SP - 167
EP - 168
VL - 28
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -