When Race Counts: The Morality of Racial Preference in Britain and AmericaRoutledge, 29/06/2005 - 272 páginas When Race Counts investigates the use of race-conscious practices in social policy in Britain and America. It questions the distinction between affirmative action and preferential treatment, and evaluates the effectiveness of a range of education and employment policies designed to counteract both unintended and direct discrimination against ethnic minorities. The book uses both empirical and moral analyses to examine the controversial dilemma of whether and in what circumstances preferential treatment may be used as a means of improving the condition of minority groups. John Edwards looks at justifications for overriding the merit principle, particularly in employment, and shows who bears the costs of such a policy, and where the benefits lie. He argues that the merit principle is in itself so flawed that to override it would cause no great damange to justice. He then sets out the requirements of an acceptable policy of minority preference tailored to the disadvantages of specific minority groups. |
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... merit principle, and where the costs and benefits of this lie, arguing that the merit principle is in itself so flawed that no great damage would be done to justice if it were to be overridden for a period by the use of tailored ...
... merit principle, and where the costs and benefits of this lie, arguing that the merit principle is in itself so flawed that no great damage would be done to justice if it were to be overridden for a period by the use of tailored ...
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... merit and the merit principle. I concluded an earlier work with a (tentative) assertion that positive discrimination was morally unjustified. I have changed my mind. In the field of race research, where knowledge is more often ...
... merit and the merit principle. I concluded an earlier work with a (tentative) assertion that positive discrimination was morally unjustified. I have changed my mind. In the field of race research, where knowledge is more often ...
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... merit principle of 'the best person for the job' which must be the foundation of all good 1 When race counts.
... merit principle of 'the best person for the job' which must be the foundation of all good 1 When race counts.
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... merit' turns out to be a rather less pristine principle than is often thought. There is, in consequence, scope for a defence of policies of preference as well as of affirmative action. Virtually all public policy (and private policy in ...
... merit' turns out to be a rather less pristine principle than is often thought. There is, in consequence, scope for a defence of policies of preference as well as of affirmative action. Virtually all public policy (and private policy in ...
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... principle of merit. Our purpose is not primarily either to promote or to detract from affirmative action or preferential treatment but rather to approach these important areas of public policy with a sense of curiosity. The arguments ...
... principle of merit. Our purpose is not primarily either to promote or to detract from affirmative action or preferential treatment but rather to approach these important areas of public policy with a sense of curiosity. The arguments ...
Índice
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the British experience | 47 |
the American way with affirmative action | 93 |
the United States | 123 |
Britain and America | 151 |
8 The moral dilemmas of preference | 163 |
10 Tailored preference | 211 |
A note on methodology | 221 |
Notes | 223 |
Bibliography | 231 |
US Cases cited | 240 |
Documentary sources | 241 |
Name index | 245 |
Subject index | 249 |
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When Race Counts: The Morality of Racial Preference in Britain and America John Edwards Pré-visualização limitada - 1995 |
When Race Counts: The Morality of Racial Preference in Britain and America John Edwards Pré-visualização limitada - 1995 |
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