Equality and Transparency : A Strategic Perspective on Affirmative Action in American Law

Sabbagh, D.

ISBN 10: 1349527742 / ISBN 13: 9781349527748

Published by Palgrave Macmillan 2007-10, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Equality and Transparency : A Strategic Perspective on Affirmative Action in American Law
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan 2007-10
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1349527742
• ISBN 13: 9781349527748
• Binding: PF
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Can affirmative action policies be convincingly justified? And how have they been legitimized over time? In a pluridisciplinary perspective at the intersection of political theory and the sociology of law, Daniel Sabbagh criticizes the two prevailing justifications put forward in favor of affirmative action: the corrective justice argument and the diversity argument.He defends the policy instead as an instrument designed to bring about the deracialization of American society. In this respect, however, affirmative action requires a measure of dissimulation in order to succeed.Equality and Transparency explains why this is so and provides a new interpretation of the strategic component in the Supreme Court's case law while identifying some of its most remarkable side effects.

About the Author

DANIEL SABBAGH is a research fellow at CERI/FNSP. He now teaches at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and at the Université Paris I (La Sorbonne), France.