Affirmative Action, Ethnicity and Conflict

ISBN-13: 9780415627689 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 224 str.

Professor Edmund Terence Gomez; Ralph Premdas

Opis

In recent years a number of countries have introduced affirmative action programmes in order to put right historical injustices and economic inequalities involving ethnic communities. This book examines affirmative action programmes in a range of countries around the world. It discusses how such programmes came about and how they have been implemented, and examines their effectiveness.

Spis treści

Introduction: Affirmative Action, Horizontal Inequalities, and Equitable Development  1. Poverty, Equality, and Affirmative Action in India  2. The Struggle for Equality and Justice: Affirmative Action in the United States of America  3. Ethnicity, Economy, and Affirmative Action in Malaysia  4. Coerced Preferences: Affirmative Action and Horizontal Inequality in Fiji  5. Affirmative Action in South Africa: Disadvantaging the Many for the Benefit of the Few  6. Contextualising Equality? Affirmative Action, Identity, and Conflict in Northern Ireland  7. Appraising Affirmative Action in Brazil

O autorze

Edmund Terence Gomez is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Malaya. Ralph Premdas is Professor of Public Policy at the University of the West Indies.