Aspirational legalism and the role of the equality and human rights commission in equality policy

Political Quarterly

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 45-52

  Mabbett, Deborah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Categorisation; Equality; Identity politics; Resources; Rights; Welfare state

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949214002     PISSN: 00323179     EISSN: 1467923X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-923X.2008.00901.x     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. This distinction between social categorisation and group identification is based on that proposed in Richard Jenkins Categorisation: Identity, social process and epistemology Current Sociology, vol. 48, no. 3, 2000, pp. 7 25.
2. A well worked-out account is William H. Simon Solving problems vs claiming rights: The pragmatist challenge to legal liberalism William and Mary Law Review, vol. 46, no. 1, 2004, pp. 127 212.
3. The phrase is used in a critique of the proliferation of equality laws and grounds by Sandra Fredman Equality: A new generation Industrial Law journal, vol. 30, no. 2, 2001, pp., 145 168, at p. 157.
4. Christopher McCrudden Equality and non-discrimination in English Public Law, ed. David Feldman, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004, p. 589.
5. Fredman Equality p. 158.
6. Fredman Equality p. 159.
7. See 'EHRC welcomes government targets to tackle inequality'. Available online at : http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/newsandcomment/Pages/ CSRresponse.aspx.
8. Lucinda Piatt, Poverty and Ethnicity in the UK, Bristol, Policy Press for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2007.
9. Laura Cram Calling the tune without paying the piper? Social policy regulation: The role of the European Commission in European Community social policy Policy and Politics, vol. 21, no. 2, 1993, p. 135.
10. See, e.g., Jack Tweedie The dilemma of clients' rights in social programs Law & Society Review, vol. 23, no. 2, 1989, pp. 175 208.
11. See the Ethnic Minority Employment Task Force (EMETF), Review of Race Equality and Public Sector Procurement and description of EMETF Public Procurement Pilots. Available online at : http://www.emetaskforce.gov.uk/ reports.asp.
12. Laurence Lustgarten Racial inequality and the limits of law Modern Law Review, vol. 49, 1986, pp. 68 85, at p. 73.