Book contents
- Trust, Courts and Social Rights
- Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law
- Trust, Courts and Social Rights
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Cases
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Conceptualising Trust in the Social Rights Context
- 3 The Citizen–Government Relationship in a Network of Trust Relationships
- 4 A Trust-Based Framework for Enforcing Social Rights?
- 5 The Expectation of Goodwill
- 6 The Expectation of Competence
- 7 The Expectation of Fiduciary Responsibility
- 8 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law
1 - Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 February 2024
- Trust, Courts and Social Rights
- Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law
- Trust, Courts and Social Rights
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Cases
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Conceptualising Trust in the Social Rights Context
- 3 The Citizen–Government Relationship in a Network of Trust Relationships
- 4 A Trust-Based Framework for Enforcing Social Rights?
- 5 The Expectation of Goodwill
- 6 The Expectation of Competence
- 7 The Expectation of Fiduciary Responsibility
- 8 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law
Summary
This chapter introduces the book. It expresses as the book’s principal objective the advancement of a normative argument regarding the judicial enforcement of constitutional social rights. This argument is that the courts, when enforcing these rights against government actors, should focus their analysis on public trust in government or ‘political trust’ – with the book’s proposed trust-based framework following on from this argument. As a starting point for this normative argument, and to address the broader question of why we should examine social rights law from the perspective of political trust, the chapter considers the relationship between political trust and public cooperation. Additionally, the chapter covers preliminary matters, defining the book’s scope, delineating the applicability of the trust-based framework, situating the framework in existing frameworks for social rights enforcement and outlining the book’s structure.
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- Trust, Courts and Social RightsA Trust-Based Framework for Social Rights Enforcement, pp. 1 - 25Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024