Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study

✍ Scribed by Thomas Sowell

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 252
• Edition: 1St Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book moves the discussion of affirmative action beyond the United States to other countries that have had similar policies, often for a longer time than Americans have. It also moves the discussion beyond the theories, principles, and laws that have been so often debated to the actual empirical consequences of affirmative action in the United States and in India, Nigeria, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and other countries. Both common patterns and national differences are examined. Much of what emerges from a factual examination of these policies flatly contradicts much of what was expected and much of what has been claimed.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
CHAPTER 1: An International Perspective......Page 14
CHAPTER 2: Affirmative Action in India......Page 36
CHAPTER 3: Affirmative Action in Malaysia......Page 68
CHAPTER 4: Affirmative Action in Sri Lanka......Page 91
CHAPTER 5: Affirmative Action in Nigeria......Page 108
CHAPTER 6: Affirmative Action in the United States......Page 128
CHAPTER 7: The Past and the Future......Page 179
Notes......Page 212
Index......Page 246

✦ Subjects

Социологические дисциплины;Общая социология;