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Examining the efforts of Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund and other groups to advance gay rights through litigation in the US courts, Andersen (political science, Indiana U.-Purdue U. Indianapolis) ask under what circumstances claims are more likely to prevail and what impact litigation outcomes have on the real lives of gay, lesbian, and bisexual people. His analysis employs the concept of legal opportunity structures that are analogous to commonly articulated dimensions of political opportunity structure--access to the formal institutional structure, the configuration of power with respect to relevant issues, and the availability of allies--and also describes how legal opportunity structures differ from their political counterparts due to the constraints of legal frames that structure the kinds of legal claims that can be made, facts that are considered relevant, and the persuasiveness of claims. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
