Affirmative Action, Ethnicity and Conflict

ISBN-13: 9781138205581 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 216 str.

Professor Edmund Terence Gomez; Ralph Premdas

Opis

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. Throughout it explores how far affirmative action programmes reinforce ethnic identities and thereby contribute to division and conflict. The countries covered are India, the United States, South Africa, Northern Ireland, Brazil, Malaysia and Fiji.

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.