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Affirmative Action

2012
Notice « Affirmative action » dans Patrick Savidan (dir.), Dictionnaire des inégalités et de la justice sociale, Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 2018.
David Benatar
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Understanding Affirmative Action

Annual Review of Psychology, 2006
Affirmative action is a controversial and often poorly understood policy. It is also a policy that has been widely studied by social scientists. In this review, we outline how affirmative action operates in employment and education settings and consider the major points of controversy. In addition, we detail the contributions of psychologists and other
Crosby, Faye J.   +2 more
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Redistribution and affirmative action

Journal of Public Economics, 2006
Abstract The paper develops an integrated political economy model in which individuals are distinguished by earning ability and an ascriptive characteristic, race. The policy space is a transfer payment to low-income workers financed by a flat tax on wages and an affirmative action constraint on firms' hiring decisions. The distribution of income and
David Austen-Smith, Michael Wallerstein
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Affirmative action algorithms

Mathematical Programming, 1986
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Yahya Fathi, Craig A. Tovey
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Affirmative Action in the Balance

New England Journal of Medicine, 2013
To provide good care, physicians must understand the communities and cultures in which they work. An important way to ensure that physicians understand the lives of their patients and to reduce health disparities is to promote racial and ethnic diversity in the physician workforce.
Gregory D, Curfman   +2 more
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The Death of Affirmative Action?

2020
In the light of high-profile Supreme Court cases surrounding affirmative action, this book looks at the actors involved in the debate and what they are saying. That is, the book looks at who is setting the line of discussion in the Supreme Court by look at legal documents arguing for and against the case as well as the framing techniques they use to ...
J. Scott Carter, Cameron D. Lippard
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Affirmative Actions

2023
Abstract While racial violence in the enlisted ranks pushed the US Army to address its racial crisis, Army leaders recognized that problems in the enlisted ranks were exacerbated by the drastic shortage of Black officers. The shortage of senior officers (in 1968 only one of 521 Army generals was Black) was due to decisions made long ...
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ANA and Affirmative Action

The American Journal of Nursing, 1973
a dramatic change from the optimistic hope that civil rights problems could be resolved quickly to the sober realization that these centuries-old, deep-seated, complex problems could not yield readily to simple solutions. Civil rights legislation attacks only the first aspect of the problem-legal denial of basic rights.
I, Minor, E, Shaw
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