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Affirmative Action in Plural Societies: International Experiences

Affirmative Action in Plural Societies: International Experiences Hardback - 2012

by Graham Brown

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Hardback. New. Global contributors discuss the theoretical controversies concerning the merits and demerits of affirmative action, and explain why affirmative action is needed in multi-ethnic countries. They analyse actual experience with affirmative action policies their origin, nature and consequences in nine countries.
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  • Title Affirmative Action in Plural Societies: International Experiences
  • Author Graham Brown
  • Binding Hardback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 280
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Palgrave MacMillan
  • Date 2012-08-31
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # B9780230277809
  • ISBN 9780230277809 / 0230277802
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 2.54 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Affirmative action programs, Affirmative action programs in education
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012022926
  • Dewey Decimal Code 331.133

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Global contributors discuss the theoretical controversies concerning the merits and demerits of affirmative action, and explain why affirmative action is needed in multi-ethnic countries. They analyse actual experience with affirmative action policies their origin, nature and consequences in nine countries.

About the author

RULOF BURGER is Senior Lecturer at the Stellenbosch University Department of Economics, South Africa and a research associate at the Centre for the Study of African Economies at Oxford University, UK JUDITH HEYER is Emeritus Fellow of Somerville College, Honorary Associate of the Oxford Department of International Development and Associate of the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies at the University of Oxford, UK RACHEL JAFTA is Professor at the Department of Economics, Stellenbosch University, South Africa NIRAJA GOPAL JAYAL is Professor and currently Chairperson of the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India MARK C. LONG is an assistant professor in the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs and adjunct assistant professor of economics at the University of Washington, USA MAZNAH MOHAMAD is visiting senior research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore, Singapore ABDUL RAUFU MUSTAPHA is University Lecturer in African Politics at the University of Oxford and Kirk-Greene Fellow in African Studies at St Antony's College, UK RAFAEL GUERREIRO OSORIO is researcher at IPEA, the Institute of Applied Economic Research, Brazil JOSEPH RUANE is Professor at the Department of Sociology, University College Cork, Ireland JENNIFER TODD is Professor at and Director of the Institute for British Irish Studies at the School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin, Ireland ZAINAL AZNAM YUSOF was an adviser at the National Implementation Task Force (NITF) and a Distinguished fellow at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS), Malaysia