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A meritocracy is a society in which positions of advantage and power are distributed based on people’s merit. Although the word ‘meritocracy’ was only coined during the 1950s by Michael Dunlop Young, merit as a principle for organizing society is much older. The relationship between merit, equality of opportunity, and desert is explored. Several recent
Timothy Beryl Bland, Victor Tan Chen
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The limits of meritocracy [PDF]
Journal of Economic Theory, 2018 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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Review of Economic Studies, 2021 Abstract Meritocracies aspire to reward hard work and promise not to judge individuals by the circumstances into which they were born. However, circumstances often shape the choice to work hard. I show that people’s merit judgments are “shallow” and insensitive to this effect. They hold others responsible for their choices, even if these
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Academia is not a meritocracy [PDF]
Nature Human Behaviour, 2019 Evaluating PhD students by their publications may have the outward appearance of a meritocracy, but as long as students from minority groups do not enjoy the same privileges as their peers, the playing field is anything but level, argues Alon Zivony.
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 In the current paper, we report the analysis of the relationship between meritocracy belief and subjective well-being using two large international databases, the European Social Survey Program (N = 44,387) and the European Values Study Program (N = 51 ...
Márton Hadarics +2 more
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Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2015 The article discusses political meritocracy phenomenon. The author examines political and economic backgrounds of the meritocracy concept occurrence within the political science discourse as well as distinctive features of that process.
Vladislav S. Gerasimov
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The Role of Meritocracy in Political Justice and its Reflection on Iranian-Islamic Model of Progress [PDF]
سیاست متعالیه, 2018 “Meritocracy” is one of the most effective strategies of creating political justice that results in rule of efficient people for exercising power. This paper seeks to explore the role of meritocracy in political justice and its aftermaths for designing ...
Seyyed Kazem SeyyedBaqeri
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Barriers to Meritocracy in Governmental Organizations of Shiraz City in the Viewpoint of Experts in Fars Governor General Office [PDF]
جامعه شناسی کاربردی, 2017 Introduction Generally speaking, the efficiency of any organization depends on the proper management and use of its human resources, and a successful organization is one that can achieve its own goals with the help of experienced managers.
Mojtaba Shahnoushi, Mitra Dadkhah
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Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia, 2020 The paper follows the institutionalization of meritocracy in the Romanian higher education. Using the Romanian experience, the study explores the setting of meritocracy, highlights the revised institutional genesis that led to the adoption of a so-called
Gavriş Alexandru
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PublicusA literature review on meritocracy might be confusing for researchers since it reveals two clearly different approaches. Meritocracy is often argued with negative connotations in politics, sociology, and educational studies, as ...
Ali GÜNEYİ
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