Equality and Transparency
A Strategic Perspective on Affirmative Action in American Law
Seiten
2007
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-4039-6382-6 (ISBN)
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-4039-6382-6 (ISBN)
This book seeks to develop and analyze in detail a key paradox of affirmative action in higher education, employment, and government contracting.
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.
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
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 10.10.2007 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy |
| Zusatzinfo | X, 257 p. |
| Verlagsort | Gordonsville |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht |
| Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4039-6382-7 / 1403963827 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4039-6382-6 / 9781403963826 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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