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30. Okt. 2004 · Affirmative Action around the World. Thomas Sowell recently concluded a study of affirmative action programs around the world, from India and Malaysia to Nigeria and the United States. His findings? Such programs have at best a negligible impact on the groups they are intended to assist.
- A Global Perspective
- Affirmative Action Around The World
- Beyond Race
- Looking Beyond Us Borders
Our research has shown that about one-quarter of the world’s countrieshave some form of affirmative action for student admissions into higher education. Many of these programs have emerged over the last 25 years. These policies may go by various names – affirmative action, reservations, alternative access, positive discrimination – but all are effo...
Though affirmative action policies as we know them have been in place in U.S. higher education since 1978, they are not the oldest: India’s policies for lower-caste studentstake that prize. South Africa’s many, and varied, alternative access programsnot only admit underrepresented students – especially black female students – but they also provide ...
Whereas the earliest forms of affirmative action focused on race and ethnicity, programs that started more recently are likely to include women. The inclusion of women has been particularly pervasive in the wave of policies that emerged around the world in the 1990s and 2000s. Affirmative action for women is now the most prevalent form of affirmati...
In short, affirmative action is alive and well – and on the rise – around the world. Indeed, some of the most creative discussions and innovations are happening outside the United States. This is an updated version of an articleoriginally published on Nov. 13, 2014.
Summary. Already known as a critic of affirmative action or race -based hiring and promotion, Sowell, himself African-American, analyzes the specific effects of such policies on India, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and Nigeria, four countries with longer multiethnic histories and then compares them with the recent history of the United States ...
- Thomas Sowell
- 2004
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 Am...
1. Jan. 2004 · In this important book, an eminent authority presents a new perspective on affirmative action, investigating its actual consequences in the United States and in other countries where it has...
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4,8 166 Sternebewertungen. Alle Formate und Editionen anzeigen. 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.
4. Juni 2013 · English. Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-231) and index. An international perspective -- Affirmative action in India -- Affirmative action in Malaysia -- Affirmative action in Sri Lanka -- Affirmative action in Nigeria -- Affirmative action in the United States -- The past and the future. Annotation.
