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Profiles, Probabilities, and Stereotypes

Author : Frederick Schauer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674043243
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Profiles, Probabilities, and Stereotypes written by Frederick Schauer and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book employs a careful, rigorous, yet lively approach to the timely question of whether we can justly generalize about members of a group on the basis of statistical tendencies of that group. For instance, should a military academy exclude women because, on average, women are more sensitive to hazing than men? Should airlines force all pilots to retire at age sixty, even though most pilots at that age have excellent vision? Can all pit bulls be banned because of the aggressive characteristics of the breed? And, most controversially, should government and law enforcement use racial and ethnic profiling as a tool to fight crime and terrorism? Frederick Schauer strives to analyze and resolve these prickly questions. When the law “thinks like an actuary”—makes decisions about groups based on averages—the public benefit can be enormous. On the other hand, profiling and stereotyping may lead to injustice. And many stereotypes are self-fulfilling, while others are simply spurious. How, then, can we decide which stereotypes are accurate, which are distortions, which can be applied fairly, and which will result in unfair stigmatization? These decisions must rely not only on statistical and empirical accuracy, but also on morality. Even statistically sound generalizations may sometimes have to yield to the demands of justice. But broad judgments are not always or even usually immoral, and we should not always dismiss them because of an instinctive aversion to stereotypes. As Schauer argues, there is good profiling and bad profiling. If we can effectively determine which is which, we stand to gain, not lose, a measure of justice.

The Politics of Social Democracy

Author : Rob Manwaring
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429648790
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Social Democracy written by Rob Manwaring and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the meaning of contemporary social democracy and how the centre-left is navigating through its current identity crisis, through a series of cases of social democratic and labour parties across Europe and the Anglosphere. The book examines the ideological, policy, electoral and organisational dilemmas facing the centre-left. Taking in cases including those from the UK, Austria, France, Germany, Scandinavia, Australia, and New Zealand, it outlines and explores the current and future trajectories of the family of centre-left parties. This text will be of key interest to students, scholars and interested readers of labour and social democratic politics, centre-left political parties, trade unions, the future of the centre-left, and more broadly to those studying political parties, European and comparative politics.

Educational Inequalities

Author : Kalwant Bhopal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134612249
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Educational Inequalities written by Kalwant Bhopal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there is considerable literature on social inequality and education, there is little recent work which explores notions of difference and diversity in relation to "race," class and gender. This edited text aims to bring together researchers in the field of education located across many international contexts such as the UK, Australia, USA, New Zealand and Europe. Contributors investigate the ways in which dominant perspectives on "difference," intersectionality and institutional structures underpin and reinforce educational inequality in schools and higher education. They emphasize the importance of international perspectives and innovative methodological approaches to examining these areas, and seek to locate the dimensions of difference within recent theoretical discourses, with an emphasis on "race," class and gender as key categories of analysis.

Stalled

Author : Linda Trimble
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774825235
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Stalled written by Linda Trimble and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following significant increases in women’s electoral representation in the 1980s and '90s, progress has stalled. Despite some high-profile successes at the provincial level, there are now only a few more women in Canada’s parliament and legislatures than a decade ago. What has happened to the representational gains for women and why does gender parity remain so elusive? To answer these questions, Stalled provides a provides a detailed roadmap of women’s political representation as candidates, office-holders, cabinet ministers, party leaders, and as representatives of the Crown at all levels of government across Canada. Prospects for gender parity in political office are assessed in each jurisdiction and institution. Explanations are re-examined and analyzed using data from across the country. The representation of women in elected and appointed offices is an important indicator of both gender equality and the overall health of democratic governance. By this measure Canada continues to fall short.

Montreal’S Gay Village

Author : Donald W. Hinrichs
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781462068388
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book Montreal’S Gay Village written by Donald W. Hinrichs and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-01-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gay Village in Montreal is a vibrant and unique neighborhood born in the 1980s. It serves as the locus of much of the social life of LGBTQ persons, and is the site of many celebrations including annual pride activities such as the Divers/Cit arts and music festival, Community Day, and the Pride parade. As a result, it has become a popular draw for tourists from around the world. Montreals Gay Village explores the neighborhood from a variety of vantage points and attempts to answer many salient questions about its origins, name, residents, and more: When and why did the Village emerge as a gay neighborhood? Where did it get its name? Who are the residents of the Village? Is the Village primarily a space for gay men, or is it open to a diverse group of people? Is it truly a village, or is it a ghettoand what are the differences? Is it a safe neighborhood to live in and visit? How do LGBTQ persons, tourists, the media, the city, and the tourist industry view the Village? Does the Village have a future as a viable gay neighborhood? This scholarly profile explores the answer to these and many other questions regarding this unique, internationally known community.

Bringing Human Rights Home

Author : Catherine Albisa
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313055513
Total Pages : 915 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Bringing Human Rights Home written by Catherine Albisa and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-12-30 with total page 915 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This three-volume set chronicles the history of human rights in the United States from the perspective of domestic social justice activism. First, the set examines the political forces and historic events that resulted in the U.S.'s failure to embrace human rights principles at home while actively (albeit selectively) championing and promoting human rights abroad. It then considers the current explosion of human rights activism around issues within the United States and the way human rights is transforming domestic social justice work. The first volume provides a historical perspective on the United States' ambivalent relationship with the international human rights movement. It examines the implications of recognizing domestic rights violations as a matter of international concern and the relationship between international and domestic law. It also addresses the role the Cold War and Southern opposition to international scrutiny of its Jim Crow policies and segregation played in shaping U.S. attitudes toward human rights generally and social and economic rights in particular. These factors forced social justice organizations to largely abandon employing a human rights framework in their domestic work and had a lasting impact on U.S. perspectives about fundamental rights and the role of government. The set also chronicles current domestic human rights work. Volumes two and three consider why domestic activists currently are using human rights and the tactical advantages and practical challenges posed by such strategies. These volumes cover everything from globalization to terrorism and the erosion of civil rights protections that led to a renewed interest in human rights; human rights versus civil rights strategies; and the different ways human rights can support social activism.

Higher Education in the American West

Author : Richard W. Jonsen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137381957
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Higher Education in the American West written by Richard W. Jonsen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Higher Education in the American West: Regional History and State Contexts is the first comprehensive regional history of American higher education. It offers new historical research on how societal forces and state actions brought about the region's one thousand two hundred institutions of higher learning in 15 western states.

Health Capital and Sustainable Socioeconomic Development

Author : Patricia A. Cholewka
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420046918
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Health Capital and Sustainable Socioeconomic Development by : Patricia A. Cholewka

Download or read book Health Capital and Sustainable Socioeconomic Development written by Patricia A. Cholewka and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2008-03-10 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given ongoing worldwide calamities such as famine, natural disasters, and drug abuse, international attention has increasingly focused upon disease detection, prevention, containment, and treatment. Serving an unmet need in the marketplace, Health Capital and Sustainable Socioeconomic Development highlights mounting evidence of the st

Trading on Commonwealth Ties

Author : Chris Milner
Publisher : Commonwealth Secretariat
ISBN 13 : 9780850928754
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Trading on Commonwealth Ties written by Chris Milner and published by Commonwealth Secretariat. This book was released on 2008 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the characteristics of current intra-Commonwealth trade, and how can it be encouraged to grow?Trading on Commonwealth Ties identifies opportunities for stimulating trade within the Commonwealth, but warns against setting up a free trade agreement across the member states. Chris Milner argues that while the idea of trying to build a Commonwealth free trade agreement may hold enormous appeal, it is fraught with legal, administrative and political difficulties. He identifies improving trade infrastructure - particularly roads, railways and port facilities - as a key means of lowering trading costs and boosting trade both within the Commonwealth and with non-Commonwealth countries.Intra-Commonwealth trade currently generates about US$225 billion a year in export trade for member countries, which is equivalent to about 16 per cent of Commonwealth countries' total exports. This is a substantial volume of trading activity, but overall the bulk of Commonwealth countries' trade is with countries outside the Commonwealth. Nonetheless, for some countries, like Botswana, Namibia, Papua New Guinea and Samoa, intra-Commonwealth trade remains significant as it represents in excess of 70 per cent of their international trade.This book will be of interest to economic planners, researchers and policy-makers in all Commonwealth countries.

Disentangling Migration and Climate Change

Author : Thomas Faist
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400762089
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Disentangling Migration and Climate Change written by Thomas Faist and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses environmental and climate change induced migration from the vantage point of migration studies, offering a broad spectrum of approaches for considering the environment/climate/migration nexus. Research on the subject is still frequently narrowed down to climate change vulnerability and the environmental push factor. The book establishes the interconnections between societal and environmental vulnerability, and migration and capability, allowing appreciation of migration in the frame of climate as a case of spatial and social mobility, that is, as a strategy of persons and groups to deal with a grossly unequal distribution of life chances across the world. In their introduction, the editors fan out the current debate and state the need to transcend predominantly policy-oriented approaches to migration. The first section of the volume focuses on “Methodologies and Methods” and presents very distinct approaches to think climate induced migration. Subsequent chapters explore the sensitivity of existing migration flows to climate change in Ghana and Bangladesh, the complex relationship between migration, demographic change and coping capacities in Canada, methodological challenges of a household survey on the significance of migration and remittances for adaptation in the Hindu Kush region and an econometric study of the aftermath of the 1998 floods in Bangladesh. The second part, “Areas of Concern: Politics and Human Rights”, deepens the analysis of discourses as well as of the implications of proposed and implemented policies. Contributors discuss such topics as environmental migration as a multi-causal problem, climate migration as a consequence in an alarmist discourse and climate migration as a solution. A study of an integrated relocation program in Papua New Guinea is followed by chapters on the promise and the flaws of planned relocation policy, global policy on protection of environmental migrants including both internally displaced peoples and those who cross international borders. A concluding chapter places human agency at centre stage and explores the interplay between human rights, capability and migration.

The Economics of Energy

Author : Les Livingstone
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557053870
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Economics of Energy written by Les Livingstone and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-03-04 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Energy powers our entire economy and is an essential resource in every industry and every home. What are our best choices from coal, oil, gas, nuclear, hydro, wind, ethanol, biomass, solar, and others? And can we depend on imports, or should we strive for energy independence?

Eurasian Economic Perspectives

Author : Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030185656
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Eurasian Economic Perspectives written by Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics includes selected papers from the 24th Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference, held in Bangkok. The theoretical and empirical papers gathered here cover diverse areas of economics and finance from different geographic regions; yet the main focus is on the latest findings on labor markets and their interactions with competitive environments. The volume also includes meso-economic studies that analyze individual companies, economic and financial environments, particularly with regard to human resource and financial risk management.

The China Challenge

Author : Huhua Cao
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 0776619551
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The China Challenge written by Huhua Cao and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2011-05-28 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the exception of Canada’s relationship with the United States, Canada’s relationship with China will likely be its most significant foreign connection in the twenty-first century. As China’s role in world politics becomes more central, understanding China becomes essential for Canadian policymakers and policy analysts in a variety of areas. Responding to this need, The China Challenge brings together perspectives from both Chinese and Canadian experts on the evolving Sino-Canadian relationship. It traces the history and looks into the future of Canada-China bilateral relations. It also examines how China has affected a number of Canadian foreign and domestic policy issues, including education, economics, immigration, labour and language. Recently, Canada-China relations have suffered from inadequate policymaking and misunderstandings on the part of both governments. Establishing a good dialogue with China must be a Canadian priority in order to build and maintain mutually beneficial relations with this emerging power, which will last into the future.

Telehealth in the Developing World

Author : Richard Wootton
Publisher : IDRC
ISBN 13 : 1853157848
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (531 download)

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Download or read book Telehealth in the Developing World written by Richard Wootton and published by IDRC. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new addition to the successful telehealth series,Telehealth in the Developing Worldaims to balance the relative lack of published information on successful telehealth solutions in the developing world.

Financial Capability and Asset Building with Diverse Populations

Author : Julie Birkenmaier
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351202294
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Financial Capability and Asset Building with Diverse Populations written by Julie Birkenmaier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global economic recovery in the aftermath of the Great Recession has not been experienced equally: while the share of wealth owned by the richest 3% has grown, the share owned by the poorest 90% continues to decline, as reported by Oxfam in 2016. This wealth divide disproportionately affects racial and ethnic minority communities. This book underscores the importance of financial capability and asset building (FCAB) practice, policy and research during a period when vulnerable populations face increasingly difficult economic and financial realities. At the same time, retrenchment and privatization of government-sponsored social services have eroded the safety net available for families experiencing poverty or near-poverty conditions. The proliferation of products and services available from both formal and informal financial institutions highlights the need to promote FCAB to avoid and/or recover from financial difficulties, crises and poverty. The contributors to this volume disseminate findings from interventions designed to increase financial knowledge, financial management and financial access across several vulnerable populations, including immigrant communities. Further, they demonstrate the need for culturally sensitive FCAB service delivery, considering opportunities and barriers posed by past and current life situations, experiences and environments experienced by different populations. The book is aimed at policymakers, researchers and practitioners who assist financially vulnerable people. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Community Practice.

Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2009, Global

Author : Justin Yifu Lin
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821380591
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2009, Global written by Justin Yifu Lin and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2010-06-21 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'ABCDE 2009 Global' presents selected papers from the ABCDE meetings, held June 9-11, 2008 in Cape Town South Africa. This volume presents papers on Trade and Investment; Migration, Remittances, and Transition from Foreign Aid; Higher Education and High-tech Industries; Human Development; and Political Economy.

Economics and Morality

Author : Society for Economic Anthropology (U.S.). Meeting
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780759112025
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Economics and Morality written by Society for Economic Anthropology (U.S.). Meeting and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Economics and Morality, the authors seek to illuminate the multiple kinds of analyses relating morality and economic behavior in particular kinds of economic systems.