Texas tort-reform strategy scaled from state to national Republican politics.

Evidence

Following Rove’s successful use of the strategy in Texas, the Republican Party adopted tort reform as a national cause. In 1994, Newt Gingrich included in his Contract with America a proposed bill called the Common Sense Legal Reform Act, which would have preempted much of state tort law and imposed a federal punitive damages cap of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in products liability cases. — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 270

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Partisan defunding incentives partly drove Republican adoption of tort reform — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 263; Tort reform functions partly as partisan class entrenchment, not policy neutrality — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 278

Broader Connections

• Partisan defunding incentives partly drove Republican adoption of tort reform #expands (0.85) — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 263
• Tort reform functions partly as partisan class entrenchment, not policy neutrality #qualifies (0.78) — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 278