Equality, Affirmative Action and Justice
Author : Johan Rabe
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 23,8 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Affirmative action programs
ISBN : 3831128324
Author : Johan Rabe
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 23,8 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Affirmative action programs
ISBN : 3831128324
Author : Michel Rosenfeld
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 13,63 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300055085
A comprehensive discussion of both the interpretive and critical issues central to the question of whether affirmative action programs are constitutional. Michel Rosenfeld presents a new theory that strongly defends the justice of affirmative action from the standpoint of both philosophy and constitutional law.
Author : Herman Belz
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 39,26 MB
Release :
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412822695
A quarter-century after the enactment of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, its legacy remains controversial. The statutory language intended to ensure equal opportunity to all individuals is now interpreted as authorizing both public and private employers to adopt preferential policies that benefit designated groups based on race and gender. Much the same transformation has occurred in federal contract programs: President Kennedy's executive order that required equal employment opportunity is now understood as mandating minority hiring with numerical goals tantamount to quotas. Herman Belz's "Equality Transformed: A Quarter-Century of Affirmative Action "traces this transformation of equality and how it was brought about by courts, regulatory agencies, and activists. The early champions of civil rights sought to eradicate impediments to advancement for the downtrodden; the ultimate aim was to create a truly colorblind society. Over the years, this goal, while still professed, became even more elusive. Preferences, goals, and timetables - "temporary" means for the attainment of a nondiscriminatory society - seemed to undermine that noble quest. "Equality Transformed "provides a textured history of affirmative action and its effects upon race relations and our democratic, egalitarian ideals. In recent years, under the impetus of the Reagan Justice Department, the Supreme Court has backed away, however hesitantly, from its earlier sympathy towards race-conscious remedies and preferential treatment. Belz's analysis of recent Supreme Court cases and their antecedents allows us to better understand both the tensions in our society and the fury that the Court has triggered with its recent civil rights pronouncements. Belz makes a strong case for hewing to a forward-looking rather than a backward-looking approach to eradicating discrimination. Anyone interested in the history, law, theory, or morality of affirmative action in employment will find "Equality Transformed "invaluable.
Author : Francis Beckwith
Publisher : Contemporary Issues
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 30,73 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Contains fifteen essays on affirmative action
Author : Susan D. Clayton
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 22,50 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780472064649
CHAPTER 3 Relative Deprivation
Author : Walter Broadnax
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 20,28 MB
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429969503
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 : Engelbert Ssekasozi
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 12,3 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780773482630
Ssekasozi provides an ontological ethical foundation for the legal analysis on affirmative action, arguing that there is a fine ethical distinction between human rights and civil rights in practice and that, where discrimination is "categorical" in nature, a "categorical" solution is required. Chapters include a review of the literature; a summary of relevant legal documents; a detailed philosophical explication of the problem; and discussion of types of discrimination, with conclusions and directions for future research. Double-spaced text. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : D. Sabbagh
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,62 MB
Release : 2007-10-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781403963826
Can affirmative action policies be convincingly justified? And how have they been legitimized over time? In a pluridisciplinary perspective at the intersection of political theory and the sociology of law, Daniel Sabbagh criticizes the two prevailing justifications put forward in favor of affirmative action: the corrective justice argument and the diversity argument.He defends the policy instead as an instrument designed to bring about the deracialization of American society. In this respect, however, affirmative action requires a measure of dissimulation in order to succeed.Equality and Transparency explains why this is so and provides a new interpretation of the strategic component in the Supreme Court's case law while identifying some of its most remarkable side effects.
Author : Randall Kennedy
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 20,91 MB
Release : 2015-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0307949362
The definitive reckoning with one of America’s most explosively contentious and divisive issues—from “one of our most important and perceptive writers on race and the law.... The mere fact that he wrote this book is all the justification necessary for reading it.”—The Washington Post What precisely is affirmative action, and why is it fiercely championed by some and just as fiercely denounced by others? Does it signify a boon or a stigma? Or is it simply reverse discrimination? What are its benefits and costs to American society? What are the exact indicia determining who should or should not be accorded affirmative action? When should affirmative action end, if it must? Randall Kennedy gives us a concise and deeply personal overview of the policy, refusing to shy away from the myriad complexities of an issue that continues to bedevil American race relations.
Author : Julio Faúndez
Publisher : International Labour Organization
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 15,74 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Affirmative action programs
ISBN : 9789221087588
C. Goals and timetables