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57 Stan. L. Rev. 1745 (2004-2005)
Dissenting by Deciding

handle is hein.journals/stflr57 and id is 1759 raw text is: ARTICLE DISSENTING BY DECIDING Heather K. Gerken* INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................... 1746 I. THE FORM D ISSENT TAKES .............................................................................. 1752 A . The Identity of the D issenter ...................................................................... 1752 B. What Makes Dissenting by Deciding Different? ........................................ 1754 II. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FORM AND FUNCTION: DISSENTING BY DECIDING AND THE GOALS OF DISSENT .............................................................. 1759 A. The Role of Dissent in Improving Democratic Decisionmaking: Visibility and the Marketplace of Ideas .......................................................... 1759 1. Making dissent visible: arguments versus decisions .............................. 1760 2. Comparing institutional alternatives: Sunstein and the dynamics of democratic decisionmaking ........................................................................ 1769 B. Dissent and the Value of Self-Governance: Speaking Truth to Power or with It.............................................................................................................. 1774 1. Forging civic ties.................................................................................... 1775 2. Comparing institutional alternatives: federalism ................................... 1782 C. Identity and Expression: The Relationship Between Collective Dissent and Public Action ........................................................................................... 1791 1. The politics of recognition: isolation and enclaves ................................ 1794 * Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law School. For helpful comments and conversations, I would like to thank Bruce Ackerman, Bill Buzbee, Sharon Dolovich, Dick Fallon, Jack Goldsmith, Ryan Goodman, Lani Guinier, Janet Halley, Don Herzog, Michael Kang, Daryl Levinson, Dan Lowenstein, Dan Meltzer, Martha Minow, Thomas Nagel, Robert Post, Fred Schauer, David Schleicher, David Simon, Dennis Thompson, Robert Tsai, Kenji Yoshino, and Ernie Young. I am especially indebted to Bill Stuntz for his help in thinking through and framing this project. Thanks also to the participants at the Constitutionalism and Legislatures Symposium at the University of Alberta's Centre for Constitutional Studies, the Emory Law School Faculty Workshop, the Harvard Law School Winter Term Workshop, the UCLA Legal Theory Workshop, the Yale Legal Theory Workshop, Michael Kang's Politics and Democratic Governance class at Emory Law School, the Harvard Constitutional Law Workshop, and the Second-Order Diversity seminar at Harvard Law School. Annette Demers, Chris Egleson, Sarah Gerry, Rebecca Ingber, Zach Robert, Monica Sekhon, and Michael Thakur provided excellent research assistance. Special thanks go to Kate Ferguson, Anton Metlitsky, Matthew Price, and Dan Weiner, who provided an extraordinary amount of help in researching and working through many parts of this Article. 1745

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