Making sense of affirmative action
What makes affirmative action morally (un)justified? That is this book's core question. Its main contribution consists in a meticulous scrutiny of the strength of the six main arguments for-i.e., the compensation, the anti-discrimination, the equality of opportunity, the role model, the diversity, and the integration-based justifications-and the five main objections to affirmative action-i.e., the reverse discrimination, the stigma, the mismatch, the publicity, and the merit-based objections-an…
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- Full title :Making sense of affirmative action / Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen.
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What makes affirmative action morally (un)justified? That is this book's core question. Its main contribution consists in a meticulous scrutiny of the strength of the six main arguments for-i.e., the compensation, the anti-discrimination, the equality of opportunity, the role model, the diversity, and the integration-based justifications-and the five main objections to affirmative action-i.e., the reverse discrimination, the stigma, the mismatch, the publicity, and the merit-based objections-and of how these arguments relate to one another. The book argues that all of the five main objections to affirmative action are either flawed or quite limited in terms of their implications. With regard to the arguments in favor of affirmative action, the book shows why the anti-discrimination and equality of opportunity-based arguments provide strong justifications for many affirmative action schemes.
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- Publication Date:2020
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- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2020
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Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 30, 2020).
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- Description:1 online resource (288 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780190648817, 0190648813
- oclc:on1152596069
- LC Classification:HF5549.5.A34
- Dewey Decimal:331.2153
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