Affirmative Action, Ethnicity and Conflict

Herausgeber: Gomez, Edmund Terence; Premdas, Ralph

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 331g
• ISBN-13: 9781138205581
• ISBN-10: 1138205583
• Artikelnr.: 49049077

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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