How do professional associations build their resources and establish authroity? What are the conditions under which professional expertise can be mobilized for political action? If professional organizations are endowed with a wealth of resources, do they use them responsibly or only for economic monopoly? What is the potential scope of professional action today?
In this pathbreaking study of the legal profession, Terence Halliday raises and addresses these questions combining extensive data from the rich archives o the Chicago Bar Association, one of the nation's largest and wealthiest bar organizations, with data from a national survey of bar legislative and judicial action. Beyond Monopoly demonstrates that the primary commitment of lawyers to economic monopoly has long been complemented by "civic professionalism" as the legal profession takes on more responsibility in the American democratic system when state capabilities diminish.
Through his examination of three types of state crises in the 1950s and 1960s--the challenges to legitimacy in the legal system, the crisis of individual rights during McCarthyism and the civil rights eras, and the fiscal crises of various state governments--Halliday shows that large bar associations can have extensive influence on any institution that is regulated by law. He argues that lawyers have the capability of turning social and political issues into technical legal matters in what he calls an "idiom of legalism." Under technical guise, lawyers come to exercise moral authority.
Halliday maintains that the American legal profession over the past century has gone from a formative stage, when controlling its market in the delivery of legal services was paramount, to an established phase in the past two decades, when it has committed extensive resources to the complex needs of the modern state. A de facto bargain has been struck: if the state leaves the profession's monopoly fairly intact, the profession can use its expert resources to help the state adapt to strain and crisis. It can do so not only in the legal system, where it has been championing "autonomous" law, but in other spheres as well--from the economy to the private sphere of individual rights.
Halliday confirms that the legal profession deploys its expertise not merely to attain professional dominance, to control a market, or to purvey an ideology, but to increase the viability of democratic institutions. Beyond Monopoly introduces a pioneering approach to a historical and comparative sociology of the professions that will be of vital interest not only to sociologists, but to political scientists and lawyers as well.
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评分这本书的阅读体验,可以用“酣畅淋漓”来形容,但这种酣畅淋漓并非轻松愉悦,而是一种智力上被充分挑战后的满足感。作者在处理复杂的跨学科内容时,展现了令人赞叹的整合能力,将历史学、社会学、政治学乃至心理学的洞察巧妙地融入其经济分析的主线之中,使得整个理论体系显得无比厚重和立体。我特别喜欢作者在不同文化背景下对“竞争”这一概念进行细致入微的比较分析,这种全球化的视野极大地拓宽了我对市场本质的理解。书中关于监管艺术的探讨,更是精妙绝伦,它没有给出简单的“应该”或“不该”的答案,而是深入剖析了政策制定者在理想与现实间的艰难权衡,那种左右为难的困境被刻画得入木三分。全书的论证过程,如同一个精密的钟表,每一个齿轮的咬合都至关重要,丝毫不能差池。读完后,我感觉自己像是在一场高水平的棋局后起身,虽然思维疲惫,但精神上却获得了极大的补给和提升。
评分这部作品的结构安排堪称典范,它不像许多同类书籍那样线性地推进,而是采用了螺旋上升的方式,每到关键转折点,作者都会巧妙地回顾前文的论点,并在此基础上建立起更深层次的理解。我发现作者在引用和注释上极为考究,大量的原始资料和学术文献为他的论点提供了坚实的基石,这使得整本书的论证充满了无可辩驳的力量感。阅读过程中,我时常会产生一种想要起身去查阅书中提及的那些经典案例和理论源头的冲动,这正是一本优秀学术著作应有的特质——激发读者的求知欲和探索欲。关于“看不见的手”在当代语境下的功能异化,作者的分析角度极为新颖,他将宏观经济理论与微观个体行为动机结合起来,构建了一个极具说服力的模型。这本书给我的感受是,它不仅教会了我如何观察世界,更重要的是,它教会了我如何质疑那些被奉为圭臬的既定事实,它无疑是近年来我所读过的最具启发性和思想深度的非虚构作品之一。
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