A cross-national analysis of affirmative action: An evolutionary psychological perspective

Managerial and Decision Economics

Volumn 27, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 203-216

  Yang, Chulguen ^a   D'Souza, Geeta C ^a   Bapat, Ashwini S ^a   Colarelli, Stephen M ^a  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646096966     PISSN: 01436570     EISSN: 10991468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mde.1293     Document Type: Review

References (56)

1. Abdullah FH. 1997. Affirmative action policy in Malaysia: to restructure society, to eradicate poverty. Ethnic Studies Report XV: 189-221.
2. Alexander RD. 1979. Darwinism and Human Affairs. University of Washington Press: Seattle.
3. Anderson TH. 2004. The Pursuit of Fairness: A History of Affirmative Action. Oxford University Press: Oxford.
4. Barkow JH, Cosmides L, Tooby J (eds). 1992. The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture. Oxford University Press: New York.
5. Bellow A. 2003. In Praise of Nepotism: A History of Family Enterprise from King David to George W. Bush. Anchor Books: New York.
6. Boston T, Nair-Reichert U. 2003. Affirmative action: perspectives from the United States, India and Brazil. The Western Journal of Black Studies 27: 3-14.
7. Boyd M, Goldman G, White P. 2000. Race in the Canadian Census. In Race and Racism: Canada's Challenge, Driedger L, Halli SS (eds). McGill-Queen's University Press: Canada; 33-54.
8. Buss DM. 1999. Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind. Allyn and Bacon: Boston.
9. Campbell JP. 1996. Group differences and personnel decisions: validity, fairness, and affirmative action. Journal of Vocational Behavior 49: 122-158.
10. Cosmides L, Tooby J. 1992. Cognitive adaptations for social exchange. In The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture, Cosmides L, Tooby J (eds). Oxford University Press: New York; 163-228.
11. Cosmides L, Tooby J. 2004. Knowing thyself: the evolutionary psychology of moral reasoning and moral sentiments. In Business, Science, and Ethics, Freeman RE, Werhane PH (eds). Society for Business Ethics: Charlottesville; 93-128.
12. Cosmides L, Tooby J, Barkow, JH. 1992. Introduction: evolutionary psychology and conceptual integration. In The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture, Barkow JH, Cosmides L, Tooby J (eds). Oxford University Press: Oxford; 3-15.
13. Crawford C. 1998. Environments and adaptations: then and now. In Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology: Ideas, Issues, and Applications, Crawford C, Krebs DL (eds). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates: Mahwah; 275-302.
14. Crawford C, Salmon C (eds). 2004. Evolutionary Psychology, Public Policy, and Personal Decisions. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates: Mahwah.
15. Crosby FJ, Iyer A, Clayton S, Downing RA. 2003. Affirmative action: psychological data and the policy debates. American Psychologist 58: 93-115.
16. Crosby FJ, VanDeVeer C (eds). 2000. Sex, Race, and Merit: Debating Affirmative Action in Education and Employment. University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor.
17. Cunningham CD, Loury GC, Skrentny JD. 2002. Passing strict scrutiny: using social science to design affirmative action programs. Georgetown Law Journal 90: 835.
18. Doverspike D, Taylor MA, Arthur W. 2000. Affirmative Action: A Psychological Perspective. Nova Science: Commack.
19. Driedger L, Reid A. 2000. Public opinion on visible minorities. In Race and Racism: Canada's Challenge, Driedger L, Halli SS (eds). McGill-Queen's University Press: Canada; 152-171.
20. Dunbar R. 1996. Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language. Harvard University Press: Boston.
21. Fry P. 2000. Politics, nationality, and the meanings of 'race' in Brazil. Daedalus 129: 83-118.
22. Haque MS. 2003. The role of the state in managing ethnic tensions in Malaysia. American Behavioral Scientist 47: 240-266.
23. Hodges-Aeberhard J, Raskin C. 1997. Affirmative Action in the Employment of Ethnic Minorities and Persons with Disabilities. International Labour Office: Geneva.
24. Holzer H, Neumark D. 2000. Assessing affirmative action. Journal of Economic Literature 38: 483-568.
25. Htun M. 2004. From 'racial democracy' to affirmative action: changing state policy on race in Brazil. Latin American Research Review 39: 60-89.
26. Human L. 1993. The development of black and female managers in South Africa: why many affirmative action programs fail. Management Education and Development 24: 153-166.
27. Jain HC. 1993. Employment equity and visible minority: have the federal policies worked? Canadian Labor Law Journal 2: 389-408.
28. Jain HC. 2002. The challenge of equality in employment in South Africa. http://www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/ irra/proceedings2002/vii-jain.html [13 May, 2005].
29. Jain HC, Hackett RD. 1989. Measuring effectiveness of employment equity programs in Canada: public policy and a survey. Canadian Public Policy 15: 189-204.
30. Jain HC, Hackett RD. 1992. A comparison of employment equity and non-employment equity organizations on designated group representation and views toward staffing. Canadian Public Administration 35: 103-110.
31. Jain HC, Sloane PJ, Horwitz FM, Taggar S, Weiner N. 2003. Employment Equity and Affirmative Action: An International Comparison. M.E.Sharpe: Armonk.
32. Jones OD, Goldsmith TH. 2005. Law and behavioral biology. Columbia Law Review 105: 405-502.
33. Kravitz DA, Harrison DA, Turner ME, Levine EL, Chaves W, Brannick MT, Denning DL, Russell CJ, Conard MA. 1997. Affirmative Action: A Review of Psychological and Behavioral Research. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Bowling Green.
34. Lerner MJ. 2001. 'Normative' and 'intuitive' senses of justice. http://www.justice-research.org/Newsletter-Issue1-01.htm#Issue%20Focus [5 June, 2005].
35. Morgan-Foster J. 2003. From Hutchins Hall to Hyderabad and beyond: a comparative look at affirmative action in three jurisdictions. Washington and Lee Race and Ethnic Ancestry Law Journal 73: 9.
36. Moore RF. 1996. Caring for identified versus statistical lives: an evolutionary view of medical distributive justice. Ethology and Sociobiology 17: 379-401.
37. Msimang S. 2001. Affirmative action in the New South Africa: the politics of representation, law, and equity. http://www.isiswomen.org/pub/wia/wiawcar/ affirmative. htm [13 May 2005].
38. Pinker S. 2002. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature. Viking: New York.
39. Premack D. 2005. The hunter-gatherer, the church, and the state. Award address in American Psychological Society 17th Annual Convention, Los Angeles, 26-29 May.
40. Raskin C. 1997. Canada. In Affirmative Action in the Employment of Ethnic Minorities and Persons with Disabilities, Hodges-Aeberhard J, Raskin C (eds). International Labor Organization: Geneva; 7-28.
41. Rebeiro FR. 1996. Diversity and assimilation in Brazil. In Now That We are Free: Coloured Communities in a Democratic South Africa, James WG, Caliguire D, Cullinan K (eds). Riener L: Boulder; 125-129.
42. Riccuci NM, Rosenbloom DH. 1989. Equity in federal employment in the United States. In Equity in Public Employment Across Nations, Tummala KK (ed.). University Press of America: Lanham; 23-47.
43. Robins RS. 2004. Darwinism and public policy: the view from political science. In Evolutionary Psychology, Public Policy, and Personal Decisions, Crawford C, Salmon C (eds). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates: Mahwah; 343-352.
44. Rubin PH. 2002. Darwinian Politics: The Evolutionary Origin of Freedom. Rutgers University Press: New Brunswick.
45. Salter F (ed.). 2003. Welfare, Ethnicity, and Altruism: New Findings and Evolutionary Theory. Frank Cass: Portland.
46. Sarich V, Miele F. 2004. Race: The Reality of Human Differences. Westview Press: Boulder.
47. Seenarine M. 1996. Dalit women: victims or beneficiaries of affirmative action policies in India-a case study. http://www.saxakali.com/Saxakali- Publications/ dalit1.htm [13 May 2005].
48. Shubane K. 1995. The wrong cure: affirmative action and South Africa's search for racial equality. Policy: Issues and Actors 8: 1-25.
49. Sowell T. 1999. The Quest for Cosmic Justice. Free Press: New York.
50. Sowell T. 2004. Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study. Yale University Press: New Haven.
51. Stafford DGSD. 1997. Malaysia's New Economic Policy and the global economy: the evolution of ethnic accommodation. The Pacific Review 10: 556-580.
52. Thompson RF, Crosby FJ, Herzberger SD. 2001. Affirmative Action: The Pros and Cons of Policy and Practice. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers: Lanham.
53. Trivers RL. 1971. The evolution of reciprocal altruism. Quarterly Review of Biology 46: 35-57.
54. van den Berghe PL. 2004. Affirmative action: towards a sociobiologically informed social policy. In Welfare, Ethnicity, and Altruism: New Findings and Evolutionary Theory, Salter FK (ed.). Frank Cass: Portland; 292-305.
55. Wargon S. 2000. Historical and political reflections on race. In Race and Racism: Canada's Challenge, Driedger L, Halli SS (eds). McGill-Queen's University Press: Canada; 20-32.
56. Wyzan ML. 1990. Ethnic relations and the New Economic Policy in Malaysia. In The Political Economy of Ethnic Discrimination and Affirmative Action: A Comparative Perspective, Wyzan ML (ed.). Praeger: New York; 49-80.