Affirmative Action in Plural Societies International Experiences [Hardcover]

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.Foreword; Luiz In?cio Lula da Silva Affirmative Action: Foundations, Contexts, and Debates; G.Brown , A.Langer & F.Stewart Affirmative Action and its Alternatives in Public Universities: What Do We Know?; M.C.Long The Challenge of Positive Discrimination in India; J.Heyer & N.G.Jayal Affirmative action in South Africa: an Empirical Assessment of the Impact on Labour Market Outcomes; R.Burger & R.Jafta The Persistence of Black-white Income Differentials in Brazil; R.G.Osorio Affirmative Action in Malaysia: An Overview of Progress and Limitations; Z.A.Yusof Ethnicity and Inequality in Malaysia: A Retrospect and a Rethinking; M.Mohamad Beyond Inequality? Assessing the Impact of Fair Employment, Affirmative Action and Equality Measures on Conflict in Northern Ireland; J.Todd & J.Ruane How Effective is the Federal Character Commission in Nigeria?; A.R.Mustapha

This book provides a perceptive overview of affirmative action and an insightful set of papers on policy contexts, practices and outcomes in seven countries It makes a welcome and important contribution to the literature, as evidenced in the range of perspectives and points of contention reviewed above. - European Journal of Development Research

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, UKJUDITH 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, UKRACHEL JAFTA is Profelc°