Equality and Transparency

A Strategic Perspective on Affirmative Action in American Law

D. Sabbagh (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

257 Seiten

2007 | 1st ed. 2007
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-52774-8 (ISBN)

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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.

DANIEL SABBAGH is a research fellow at CERI/FNSP. He now teaches at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and at the Université Paris I (La Sorbonne), France.

Introduction PART ONE: EVALUATING THE DISCOURSE JUSTIFYING AFFIRMATIVE ACTION The Paradigm of Compensation The Paradigm of Diversity On Behalf of a Consequentialist and Strategic Approach: Affirmative Action as an Instrument of Creating a Race-Blind Society in the United States PART TWO: INTERPRETING THE STRATEGIES FOR LEGITIMATING AFFIRMATIVE ACTION The Problemantic Enunciation of the 'Race Blind' Argument The Transparence of this Device and Its Detrimental Effects The Strategies of Dissimulation and their Fingerprints Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	11.08.2016
Reihe/Serie	The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy
Zusatzinfo	X, 257 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
Schlagworte	action • Affirmative Action • Education • Employment • Government • higher education • quality • State • Transparency
ISBN-10	1-349-52774-2 / 1349527742
ISBN-13	978-1-349-52774-8 / 9781349527748
Zustand	Neuware