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Education as a Common Possession
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reflects on Will Kymlicka's account of solidarity and membership through the lens of conflict over public schooling in San Francisco. It contrasts a Marshallian vision of society as a shared possession capable of sustaining democratic solidarity and welfare institutions with an anti‐Marshallian politics that sees the language of ...
Margaret Kohn
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Cogent Business & ManagementEthiopia’s commitment to public service reform and meritocratic principles faces challenges, particularly legal and moral violence in the study area.
Worku Lemlemu Ferede +2 more
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Selling Hope and College: Merits, Markets, and Recruitment in an Unranked School [PDF]
, 2017 [Excerpt] It has long been assumed that college admission should be a simple matter of sorting students according to merit, with the best heading off to the Ivy League and highly ranked liberal arts colleges and the rest falling naturally into their ...
Posecznick, Alex
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Linking Basis of Leader–Member Exchange Differentiation to Diversity Climate and Idea Generation
Journal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Diversity climate has been recognized as a key factor in preventing negative and fostering positive diversity effects. Despite this, the literature provides limited theory for leaders and organizations on how to create positive diversity climates—and even fewer empirical tests.
David J. G. Dwertmann, Haeseen Park
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Meritocracy: A widespread ideology due to school socialization? [PDF]
, 2009 The following research focuses on the perception of meritocracy and the support for an education-based meritocracy among individuals. The impact of education at both micro- (individual) and macro- (country) level has been closely investigated through ...
Duru-Bellat, Marie, Tenret, Elise
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Embracing Creative Nonconformists and Promoting Them May Require Leaders' High Control Appraisals
Journal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Promoting creative employees is essential to innovation and organizational success. However, leaders do not always embrace the nonconformist nature of creative behaviors. This study examines how leaders' control appraisals—a personal orientation reflecting their belief in their own ability to control situations—influence their receptiveness ...
Xue Peng, Wen Cheng, Man‐Nok Wong
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Meritocracy or malfeasance: violations of meritocracy erode civic rule following
Frontiers in Behavioral EconomicsThe perceived legitimacy of institutions, along with the voluntary compliance with authority that it undergirds, is crucial for stable governance and economic development. Legitimacy varies greatly across individuals and societies.
Reuben Kline +2 more
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Economic inequality and belief in meritocracy in the United States
Research & Politics, 2016 How does the context of income inequality in which people live affect their belief in meritocracy, the ability to get ahead through hard work? A prominent recent study by Newman, Johnston, and Lown argues that, consistent with the conflict theory ...
Frederick Solt +4 more
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The meritocracy or “responsibility elite”? An evangelical approach to the issue of social elites
Annales Etyka w Życiu Gospodarczym, 2017 The notion of meritocracy is among the keywords used to describe the contemporary world. Increasingly, it has become a central concept of an order with globalization and the impact of free-market philosophy on society and culture as the main factors. The
Piotr Kopiec
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Reflections on Comparative Teaching in Public Administration
Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article integrates our scholarly experience of teaching comparative public administration. In doing so, we offer a unique perspective as the co‐authors carry several diverse attributes, among them their countries of origin, current country in which they are teaching, and their academic experience.
Kim Moloney +6 more
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