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100 1 _aHICKLIN, Alisa
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245 1 0 _aThe Effect of race-based admissions in public universities :
_bdebunking the myths about hopwood and proposition 209
260 _aMalden, MA :
_bBlackwell Publishers,
_cMarch / April 2007
520 3 _aIn the debates over the 2003 U.S. Supreme Court decisions regarding race-based university admissions, speculation has focused on how affirmative action affects minority undergraduate enrollments. This paper uses a rational choice framework to test the conventional wisdom about the effect of race-based admissions, focusing on the landmark Hopwood judicial decision and California’s Proposition 209. This study offers more generalizable findings by incorporating all public universities bound under Hopwood and Proposition 209 using data spanning 1990–2000. Findings indicate that the effect of race-based admissions standards is not what might have been predicted: Shifts in minority enrollments that are attributable to affirmative action hinge on university-specific characteristics—namely, the level of selectivity
590 _aPublic administration review PAR
773 0 8 _tPublic Administration Review: PAR
_g67, 2, p. 331-340
_dMalden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, March / April 2007
_xISSN 00333352
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