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The key to understanding this tension in the book, I think, is the theory of law that Epp finally turns to in his conclusion: In Britain, perhaps, the elites had enough of an interest in maintaining legitimacy and enough power to pressure the system that some limited form of legalized accountability could emerge. Much like many sociolegal scholars, including Michael McCann and John Brigham , Epp relies heavily upon the idea that law is a constitutive force in both creating the interests of political actors and in the structure of governance. These are not his terms, though his ideas lend themselves to another body of literature that contains many of the same themes see for example, Hunt and Wickham ; Merry ; Cooper Like these other scholars, Epp sees the constitution of governance as a highly dynamic process, and one that relies upon the relations of power as they play themselves out not only among individuals, but among individuals and institutions, and bureaucracies and other parts of government see also, Epp, Power — in the form of demands, threats, and possible consequences, as well as more tangible resources -- is an integral part of the emergence of legalized accountability.
Put another way, the tensions between administrative rules and constitutional rights — and the relationships among the people making the rules and making rights claims and other political claims — are a critical element of modern governance McClure This is not because the institutions simply respond to pressures of various groups; rather, the institutions and agencies in them provide the practices and forms that give shape to the claims and, ultimately, change the way people think about what it means to govern or be governed.
By highlighting this process and making clear the legalized framework that emerged, Epp contributes to the sociolegal literature on governance and institutional development as well as the public policy and administrative law literatures in political science.
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