Equality and Transparency
Subtitle: A Strategic Perspective on Affirmative Action in American Law (CERI Series in International Relations a)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: August 21, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781403963826
Subjects: Constitutional & administrative law; Equal opportunities; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Employment Of Minorities (General); Ethnic Groups In Higher Education; Law; Politics / Current Events; USA; Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights; Public Policy - Social Policy; Social Classes; Political Science / Social Policy; Educational; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Affirmative action programs; Law and legislation; Social aspects; United States
Description: 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.