Books by Donald L. Horowitz

In recent years, the power of American judges to make social policy has been significantly broadened. This book is the first to offer a comprehensive study of the capacity of courts to make and implement social policy. Donald L. Horowitz, a lawyer and social scientist, traces the imprint of the judicial process on the policies that emerge from it.

Drawing material from dozens of divided societies, this title constructs a theory of ethnic conflict, relating ethnic affiliations to kinship and intergroup relations to the fear of domination.

Considers the structure and dynamics of ethnic violence - the deadly ethnic riot - an intense, sudden, lethal attack by civilian members of one ethnic group against another ethnic group. This title examines approximately 150 such riots in about fifty countries, mainly in Asia, Africa, and the former Soviet Union, as well as fifty control cases.