WHAT INFLUENCES THE ADOPTION OF QUOTAS IN GRADUATE PROGRAMS?

ABSTRACT

This research investigates influences for adopting affirmative action to graduate programs at Brazilian public universities. The adoption of affirmative action typically involves students and faculty acting as bureaucratic activists, and follows institutional isomorphism logics. The representative bureaucracy hypothesis requires further studies, given the conflicting results found here – while the in-depth study at UnB resulted in no significant relation between racial identity and quotas at graduate programs, the survey sent to other universities resulted in positive relations.

Keywords
Quotas; Graduate programs; Representative bureaucracy; Activism; Isomorphism