Affirmative Action and the University: Race, Ethnicity, And Gender in Higher Education Employment
Kul B. Rai and John W. Critzer. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000, 250 pp., $45
POLITICAL SCIENTISTS KUL RAI AND John Critzer center their book around the concept of "representative bureaucracy," by which they mean that a bureaucracy that represents the range of people in a society will be more responsive and fairer to all than a less representative bureaucracy. They argue that in the recent past, politicians and courts began to judge whether an organization was representative of the populace by looking at the distribution of categories of people in the group. If, …