Prohibiting Employment Discrimination
Ideas and Politics in the Congressional Debate over Equal Employment Opportunity Legislation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2209665 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Burstein (0000-0002-9138-6150), Margo W Macleod |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 86 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 512-533 |
| Publication date | 1980-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/227279 |
| OpenAlex | W2071948493 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 4 |
Past analyses of the politics of equal employment opportunity (EEO) legislation focus on the circumstances associated with its passage by Congress. This paper, in contrast, considers how Congress came to agree on the content of today's EEO law, how support for EEO legislation increased from the early 1940s to the early 1970s, and why action on EEO subsequently ceased. The data show that although American society changed a great deal during these years, the congressional debate on EEO was organized around ideas proposed in the 1940s. The growth of support for EEO legislation was steady and gradual over the entire period, and congressional action ceased after 1972 because the original agenda had been completed. The implications of the findings for the causal analysis of congressional action are considered
Action (physics) · Affirmative action · Commission · Economic growth · Economics · Employment protection legislation · Equal employment opportunity · Legislation · Political action · Political science · Politics · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 1982 - 2023 (42) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |