Does Affirmative Action Work? Evaluating India's Quota System.
This paper examines two common critiques of ethnic quota policies in government hiring and education: that they do not benefit the target group, and that any benefits are unevenly distributed within the target group. It focuses on the effects of educational and hiring quotas for Other Backward Class...
| Publicado en: | Comparative Political Studies Vol. 54; no. 9; pp. 1534 - 1565 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Aug2021
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