Inter-personal Versus Inter-group Inequality

S. Subramanian ()
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Chapter Chapter 11 in Inequality and Poverty, 2019, pp 35-37 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Provisions of group equality such as those subsumed in tenets of ‘affirmative action’ or ‘compensatory discrimination’ have always been fraught with political opposition to them, as constituting an affront to constitutional guarantees of inter-personal equality. The issue is explored briefly and analytically in the present chapter, which seeks to address the alleged conflict in terms of the distinction between ‘formal’ equality and ‘substantive’ equality—a distinction that emerges clearly from a consideration of the phenomenon of ‘heterogeneity’ as a fundamental correlate of inequality.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-8185-0_11

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