Open AccessAffirmative Action And Governmental Procurement Policies: The Rules Of The Game Have Changed
Author(s) -
Ronald L. Taylor
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of applied business research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.149
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 2157-8834
pISSN - 0892-7626
DOI - 10.19030/jabr.v6i4.6273
Subject(s) - affirmative action , procurement , supreme court , government procurement , government (linguistics) , action (physics) , state (computer science) , aside , business , law and economics , law , political science , public administration , economics , marketing , computer science , art , linguistics , philosophy , physics , literature , algorithm , quantum mechanics
State and local governments have adopted hundreds of affirmative action programs that set-aside a percentage of government procurements for minority-owned businesses. For a number of years, these programs were commonly upheld based upon certain relatively relaxed constitutional rules. Recently, however, the Supreme Court articulated stringent new rules that twill significantly curtail future programs of this nature. Governmental procurement policies must be quickly altered to accommodate these news constitutional limitations.