POL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Collective Action, Reverse Discrimination, Grutter V. Bollinger
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Free riders: avg member has an incentive to sit back and let other people handle the burden, but to get anything done this cannot happen. Therefore you must raise benefits of participation and costs of inaction. Divide southern and non-southern whites, for example. Peaceful protests provoke violence at the hands of southern police. Separation of powers became stepping stones to political change. Applied to college admissions, government contracts, etc. Measured through proportions of population as a standard for how many soc should be admitted. Procedural fairness: collect information, and see the number of poc who applied and how many were admitted. Argued he suffered reverse discrimination and the use of hard quotas goes too far. Decision: race can be considered, but hard quotas go too far. Shape kids while they"re young to grow up to be law abiding citizens. Non-democratic because we don"t really give them a choice to be socialized in this way.
