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Offering a new way of thinking about liberalism and public policies, this book contends that group-based policies, predicated on all manner of group construction, pervade public policy. Such policies are grounded in group distinctions that include not only race, ethnicity, gender, and age, but current and past behavior, employment status, personal preferences, and numerous statistical and inferential factors. Although many of these policies are considered to be liberal, they are all discriminatory in essence. For example, the Social Security Act of 1935, although regarded as the foundation of modern liberalism, is riddled with group-based policies that are inconsistent with the principle of nondiscrimination. This book examines other examples of group-based discrimination in such diverse areas as public welfare and child welfare, drug and gambling laws, drunk driving laws, criminal justice, and foreign policy.

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Book category Books in English Law Jurisprudence & general issues Jurisprudence & philosophy of law

• Full title: Doing Justice
• Author: PELTON
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9780791441800
• ID: 04921836
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Weight: 340 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 152 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. April 1999

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