Elliott White

Intelligence, Political Inequality, and Public Policy

Herausgeber: White, Elliott

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This timely book deals directly with a topic increasingly in the news and on the minds of policy makers-political inequality. It is no coincidence that the official theme of the 1996 meeting of the American Political Science Association is the issue of political inequality. Drawing together a number of the leading writers on the topic, White provides a full and serious examination of the biological and environmental factors that may be involved. In looking at these factors, the book opens up new paths of exploration for political science, including the consideration of the role of the pariah variable of intelligence. A major work that researchers and policy makers of both liberal and conservative persuasion will need to confront.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 495g
• ISBN-13: 9780275956554
• ISBN-10: 0275956555
• Artikelnr.: 25569398

Autorenporträt

ELLIOTT WHITE is Professor of Political Science at Temple University. He is the author of Genes, Brains, and Politics (Praeger, 1993) and The End of the Empty Organism (Praeger, 1992) as well as the forthcoming Balkanized Global Village.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Introduction Policy Entrepreneurs and the Academic Establishment:
The Bell Curve Controversy by Martin Rein and Christopher Winship The Bell
Curve as Policy: Practical or Pablum by Albert Somit Intelligence and
America's Oncoming Economic Divide by Seymour W. Itzkoff Nature's Matthew
Effect: The Hypertrophic Basis of Increasing Political Inequality by
Elliott White Why The Bell Curve Didn't Go Far Enough on Race by J.
Philippe Rushton Brain Biochemistry and Social Status: The Neurotoxicity
Hypothesis by Roger D. Masters with David J. Grelotti, Brian T. Hone, David
Gonzalez, and David Jones, Jr. Further Readings