Results 21 to 30 of about 312,641 (261)
Equal Opportunity Beliefs beyond Black and White American Christianity
Religions, 2020 Scholars in critical race and the sociology of religion have independently drawn attention to the ways in which cultural ideologies drive beliefs about inequalities between groups.
Jerry Z. Park +2 more
doaj +1 more source
Science and equality of opportunity [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020 Since I issued my statement (http://www.nasonline.org/about-nas/leadership/president/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-statement.html) on racial inequality as president of the National Academy of Sciences, many scientists have written asking how they can help rectify this situation.
openaire +2 more sources
Data & PolicyGauging the extent of public acceptability of reforms is an important concern for policymakers. Timely insights into public perceptions can illuminate how reforms are received and how attitudes evolve over time.
Simone Maria Parazzoli +6 more
doaj +1 more source
Economic Growth and Equality of Opportunity [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 In this paper we argue that a better understanding of the relationship between inequality and growth can be obtained by shifting the analysis from the space of final achievements to the space of opportunities. To this end, we introduce the Opportunity Growth Incidence Curve, that can be used to evaluate the income dynamics of specific groups of the ...
Peragine V., Palmisano F., Brunori P.
openaire +10 more sources
Merit and Reaction Qualifications
Political PhilosophyWhen selecting between applicants for a job, when and how should we take into account the reactions that they elicit from others? On one hand, applicants’ “reaction qualifications” often speak to their merit, in which case we seem required to consider ...
Karolina Wisniewska
doaj +2 more sources
Relevance of Representative Bureaucracy in Municipality Administration in the Republic of Lithuania
Socialiniai Tyrimai, 2015 The concept of representative bureaucracy is based on the significance of representativeness of bureaucracy: its sensitivity to the public interest is directly related to representativeness of public sector servants.
Arvydas Mikalauskas
doaj +1 more source
Equality of Opportunity and Equality of Outcome
Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2016 The report on the findings of extensive empirical research on equality of educational opportunities carried out in the US on a very large sample of public schools by Coleman and his colleagues has had a major impact on education policy and has given rise to a large amount of research and various interpretations.
openaire +6 more sources
Policy Reform Efforts and Equal Opportunity – An Evidence-Based Link?
Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2012 The main focus of the present paper is to answer two different questions: From the perspective of Austrian education policy, which core areas of schooling are linked to the demand for equal opportunity?
Corinna Geppert +2 more
doaj +1 more source
Personalized Zebrafish Models for Fusion‐Positive Pediatric Sarcomas
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Clinical sequencing efforts have revolutionized our approaches to categorizing pediatric cancers in real time. This has dramatically improved our ability to profile pediatric tumors, identify actionable vulnerabilities, and influence clinical care.
Lisa H. Hall +2 more
wiley +1 more source
Inheritance and equal opportunity - it is the family that matters
Public Sector Economics, 2020 Inheritance fundamentally violates the meritocratic justice principle of society. Despite the high level of wealth concentration and the fact that few people would be affected, political support for an inheritance tax is rather low.
Pirmin Fessler, Martin Schürz
doaj +1 more source