Affirmative Action And Representation

Author : Robert Post,Michael Paul Rogin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023045607

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Race and Representation by Robert Post,Michael Paul Rogin Pdf

An exploration of one of the most debated--and divisive--issues in American society today.Why has affirmative action become the lightning rod for conflicts over racial inequality in the United States? Have color-blind legal and political doctrines intensified or ameliorated America's racial divisions? Race and Representation invites the reader to enter a debate on a matter of the greatest moment for American universities, politics, and public life. Focusing on the politically driven decision of California's governor and the Board of Regents of the University of California to end affirmative action at the university, the subsequent enactment of an amendment to the California Constitution prohibiting the state from engaging in affirmative action, and court decisions in Texas that used the federal Constitution to prohibit affirmative action at state universities, the contributors to this volume incisively assess the current state of the tumultuous controversy over affirmative action.

Author : Anthony Arthur Peacock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015041082069

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Affirmative Action and Representation by Anthony Arthur Peacock Pdf

Author : Kul B. Rai,John W. Critzer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0803239343

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Affirmative Action and the University by Kul B. Rai,John W. Critzer Pdf

Affirmative Action and the University is the only full-length study to examine the impact of affirmative action on all higher education hiring practices. Drawing onødata provided by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the U.S. Department of Education?s National Center for Education Statistics, the authors summarize, track, and evaluate changes in the gender and ethnic makeup of academic and nonacademic employees at private and public colleges and universities from the late 1970s through the mid-1990s. Separate chapters assess changes in employment opportunities for white women, blacks, Asians, Hispanics, and Native Americans. The authors look at the extent to which a two-tier employment system exists. In such a system minorities and women are more likely to make their greatest gains in non-elite positions rather than in faculty and administrative positions. The authors also examine differences in hiring practices between public and private colleges and universities.

Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Affirmative action programs
ISBN : UIUC:30112033961688

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Affirmative Action : Social Security Can Do More to Improve Blacks' Representation in Its Work Force by United States. General Accounting Office Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0890898839

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Affirmative Action and Representation by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Affirmative action programs
ISBN : IND:30000090429337

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Affirmative Action : Social Security Can Do More to Improve Blacks' Representation in Its Work Force by United States. General Accounting Office Pdf

Author : Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190648794

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Making Sense of Affirmative Action by Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen Pdf

Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen here poses the question: "Is affirmative action morally (un)justifiable?" As a phrase that frequently surfaces in major headlines, affirmative action is a highly controversial and far-reaching issue, yet most of the recent scholarly literature surrounding the topic tends to focus on defending one side or another in a particular case of affirmative action. Lippert-Rasmussen instead takes a wide-angle view, addressing each of the prevailing contemporary arguments for and against affirmative action. In his introduction, he proposes an amended definition of affirmative action and considers what forms, from quotas to outreach strategies, may fall under this revised definition. He then analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of each position, relative to each other, and applies recent discussions in political philosophy to assess if and how each argument might justify different conclusions given different cases or philosophical frameworks. Each chapter investigates an argument for or against affirmative action. The six arguments for it consist of compensation, anti-discrimination, equality of opportunity, role model, diversity, and integration. The five arguments against it are reverse discrimination, stigma, mismatch, publicity, and merit. Lippert-Rasmussen also expands the discussion to include affirmative action for groups beyond the prototypical examples of African Americans and women, and to consider health and minority languages as possible criteria for inclusion in affirmative action initiatives. Based on the comparative strength of anti-discrimination and equality of opportunity arguments, Making Sense of Affirmative Action ultimately makes a case in favor of affirmative action; however, its originality lies in Lippert-Rasmussen's careful exploration of moral justifiability as a contextual evaluative measure and his insistence that complexity and a comparative focus are inherent to this important issue.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Education, Training, and Employment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Affirmative action programs
ISBN : PURD:32754078703026

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GAO Study of Disabled Veterans Affirmative Action Plans in Certain Federal Agencies by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Education, Training, and Employment Pdf

Author : Hwok-Aun Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351626224

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Affirmative Action in Malaysia and South Africa by Hwok-Aun Lee Pdf

Malaysia and South Africa implement the most extensive affirmative action programmes worldwide. This book explores why and how to effect preferential treatment which has been utilized in the pursuit of inter-ethnic parity, specifically in higher education, high-level occupations, enterprise development and wealth ownership. Through methodical and critical analyses of data on education, workforce and population, the book evaluates the primary objectives of increasing majority representation in education, employment, enterprise and ownership. The book also critically considers questions of the attainments and limitations of ethnic preferential treatment in reducing disparity, the challenges of developing capability and reducing dependency and the scope for policy reforms.

Author : Ockert Dupper,Kamala Sankaran
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781920689469

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Affirmative Action by Ockert Dupper,Kamala Sankaran Pdf

Affirmative Action: A View from the Global South provides insight into a range of aspects of the affirmative action policies in seven countries from Africa, Asia, South America and the Middle East. In addition to these national perspectives, important theoretical concepts and international developments on affirmative action are explored.

Author : James A. Beckman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 973 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216066026

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Controversies in Affirmative Action by James A. Beckman Pdf

An engaging and eclectic collection of essays from leading scholars on the subject, which looks at affirmative action past and present, analyzes its efficacy, its legacy, and its role in the future of the United States. This comprehensive, three-volume set explores the ways the United States has interpreted affirmative action and probes the effects of the policy from the perspectives of economics, law, philosophy, psychology, sociology, political science, and race relations. Expert contributors tackle a host of knotty issues, ranging from the history of affirmative action to the theories underpinning it. They show how affirmative action has been implemented over the years, discuss its legality and constitutionality, and speculate about its future. Volume one traces the origin and evolution of affirmative action. Volume two discusses modern applications and debates, and volume three delves into such areas as international practices and critical race theory. Standalone essays link cause and effect and past and present as they tackle intriguing—and important—questions. When does "affirmative action" become "reverse discrimination"? How many decades are too many for a "temporary" policy to remain in existence? Does race- or gender-based affirmative action violate the equal protection of law guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment? In raising such issues, the work encourages readers to come to their own conclusions about the policy and its future application.

Author : Walter Broadnax
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429969508

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Diversity And Affirmative Action In Public Service by Walter Broadnax Pdf

In 1968 a theory of social equity was developed and put forward as the "third pillar for public administration, with the same status as economy and efficiency as values or principles to which public administration should adhere. Considerable progress has been made in social equity in the past 20 years. Theoretically, the works ofRawls and Rae and associates provide a language and a road map for understanding the complexity of the subject. The courts were especially supportive of principles of social equity in the later years of Chief Justice Earl Warren and during the years of Chief Justice Warren Burger. The present period, marked by the leadership of William Rehnquist, evidences a significant drawing back from the earlier commitment to equity. The decisions of state courts, based upon state constitutions and the common law, hold considerable promise for advancing social equity principles. Scholarly research demonstrates the belief of the American people in fairness, justice, and equality and their recognition of the complexity of the subject and their ambivalence toward competing claims for equality. Research on public administration finds that bureaucratic decision rules and the processes of policy implementation tend to favor principles of social equity.

Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Affirmative action programs
ISBN : STANFORD:36105127332315

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Federal Affirmative Action by United States. General Accounting Office Pdf

Author : George Gerapetritis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319223957

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Affirmative Action Policies and Judicial Review Worldwide by George Gerapetritis Pdf

This book discusses affirmative action or positive discrimination, defined as measures awarding privileges to certain groups that have historically suffered discrimination or have been underrepresented in specific social sectors. The book’s underlying rationale is that one cannot place at the same starting point people who have been treated differently in the past because in this way one merely perpetuates a state of difference and, in turn, social gaps are exaggerated and social cohesion is endangered. Starting out with an introduction on the meaning and typology of affirmative action policies, the book goes on to emphasise the interaction of affirmative action with traditional values of liberal state, such as equality, meritocracy, democracy, justice, liberalism and socialism. It reveals the affirmative action goals from a legal and sociological point of view, examining the remedial, cultural, societal, pedagogical and economy purposes of such action. After applying an institutional narrative of the implementation of affirmative action worldwide, the book explains the jurisprudence on the issue through syntheses and antitheses of structural and material variables, such as the institutional recognition of the policies, the domains of their implementation and their beneficiaries. The book eventually makes an analytical impact assessment following the implementation of affirmative action plans and the judicial response, especially in relation to the conventional human rights doctrine, by establishing a liaison between affirmative action and social and group rights.. The book applies a multi-disciplinary and comparative methodology in order to assess the ethical standing of affirmative action policies, the public interests involved and their effectiveness towards actual equality. In the light of the above analysis, the monograph explains the arguments considering affirmative action as a theology for substantive equality and the arguments treating this policy as anathema for liberalism. A universal discussion currently at its peak.

Author : Aileen McHarg,Donald Nicolson
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 140514839X

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Debating Affirmative Action by Aileen McHarg,Donald Nicolson Pdf

This collection examines the case for affirmative action in the UK in relation to employment, higher education, the legal profession, the judiciary, political representation and minority language rights. Draws on experience of affirmative action in the United States, Canada and Germany. Contributions highlight the importance of how affirmative action is conceptualised and of context in evaluating the case for affirmative action. Emphasises the need for pragmatic judgments about the likely effectiveness and costs of affirmative action policies.