Research Catalog

Title

When government speaks : politics, law, and government expression in America / Mark G. Yudof.

Author

Yudof, Mark G.

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1983.

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Details

Description

xvi, 323 pages; 23 cm

Subject

• Government information > United States
• Freedom of information > United States
• Government publicity > United States
• Freedom of speech > United States
• Freedom of information
• Freedom of speech
• Government information
• Government publicity
• Informationsfreiheit
• Overheid
• Communicatie
• Informatie
• United States
• USA
• USA

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pt. 1 Government expression in a democracy -- The nerves of government: government communication, the welfare state, and technology -- Government communication and the :self-controlled citizen" -- Communication and the polity: legitimacy, policy, and government "rights" of expression -- The opportunity for abuse of government communication -- Pt. 2 Limits on government expression -- The indeterminate impact of mass communications -- Government expression and the pluralist faith -- Nonjudicial restraints of government expression -- Pt. 3 Government expression and first amendment theory -- The majoritarian underpinnings of the first amendment: verifying and falsifying consent -- The first amendment as a constraint on government expression: arguments from hisotry and structure -- Verifying and falsifying majorities: legislative and judicial competence -- Government expression, the first amendment, and the courts -- Pt. 4 Limiting government expression through the first amendment -- The first amendment and public schooling -- Government subsidies of private speech, the public-forum doctrine, and government as editor -- Rights to gather state-held information -- Direct judicial controls on government expression -- Conclusion: enjoining government expression under an Ultra Vires Doctrine.

ISBN

• 0520042549
• 9780520042544

LCCN

81001965

OCLC

• ocm07276150
• 7276150
• SCSB-9010653

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library