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Affirmative action remains arguably a vital, and certainly a volatile, policy instrument through which governments advance the interests of particular populations within their respective jurisdictions. The American context remains perhaps the most commented upon expression of this legal and moral concept, in which legislation was deployed in the wake of the civil rights movement to foster greater equality of access and means for populations that had experienced historical and institutional marginalization. However, the success of that particular utilization of affirmative action remains debatable; in fact, its continued survival as a component of American law might be brought into question before the Supreme Court within the year. Furthermore, affirmative action as an idea can no longer be reduced to a footnote within the peculiar histories of racial redress within the United States. Affirmative action now informs a variety of policy platforms throughout an increasing interconnected, globalized world. If the State is conceptualized as one institution among many operating within the public space, the question of whether or not it should intervene in the hiring and personnel actions of other institutions now becomes an inquiry into the very possibility of free markets, limited government, privacy rights, and the fundamental democratic balance of majority and minority rights. More compellingly, can the coercive force of the State ever truly empower societal change in the first place, or is affirmative action itself fundamentally missing the point?
You are to analyze the debate on affirmative action hosted by the Economist in April 2013, available here: http://www.economist.com/debate/overview/251. Note that the debate took place over the course of a week with each day providing new content, all of which is available at the above website. You will be held accountable for demonstrating engagement with the entirety of the content provided. In addition to the featured commentators and the moderator, guests were also solicited to contribute to the debate. Again, all the necessary content to meet the demands of this prompt is available at the above website and within your textbook.
To be clear, you are not to create your own arguments for or against affirmative action. Rather, you are to analyze both sides of the assigned debate. In doing so, you are to (1) identify key premises upon which each side builds their respective arguments, (2) note differences in the way shared terms are defined and deployed in the course of the arguments, (3) track how each argument builds into the next to form an overarching critique, and (4) explicate how various legal and moral analogies are drawn upon to strengthen each side. Make absolutely certain you read, use, and cite the additional articles made available on the website, explicitly listed under “Background reading.” Do not critique the concept solely from the perspective of the American context; demonstrate awareness and aptitude with the larger conceptual stakes of the debate. This paper must demonstrate clear engagement with the chapters on Inductive Logic, as well as how that material builds upon previously discussed concepts from Informal and Formal Logic.
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