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Unpacking Merit, Fit, and Diversity: A Multifaceted Framework to Academic Gatekeeping in Social Sciences at U.S. R1 Research Universities

open access: yesSociological Inquiry, Volume 96, Issue 2, Page 417-442, May 2026.
This study draws on interviews with 50 sociology and business professors across two private and five public American universities, and proposes a novel “Merit‐Fit‐Diversit” framework to show how narratives of merit, fit, and diversity emerge at different evaluation stages of tenure‐track job candidates. The evaluation produces inequality because: merit
Leping Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Meritocracy and the Singapore Political System

Asian Journal of Political Science, 2009
Abstract A meritocracy presumes those with innate and demonstrated talent will be an elite. The implementation of meritocracy remains a guiding principle of the People's Action Party's (PAP) non-communist leaders who have governed Singapore since 1959. This article focuses on meritocracy, elected public officials and the PAP's recruiting to government ...
Thomas J Bellows
exaly   +2 more sources

Political meritocracy and the troubles of Western democracies

Philosophy and Social Criticism, 2020
Confucian meritocratic rule has been recently advocated on the basis of the economic performance of Western democracies and the political ignorance of their average voters. These arguments are grounded in the analyses of real phenomena, but they are insufficient to establish the greater effectiveness of political meritocracy over democracy.
Elena Ziliotti
exaly   +2 more sources

What’s Wrong with Political Meritocracy

2016
This chapter examines three key problems associated with any attempt to implement political meritocracy: the problem of corruption, the problem of ossification, and the problem of legitimacy. Given that electoral democracy at the top is not politically realistic in China, the chapter asks whether it is possible to address these problems without ...
exaly   +3 more sources

The Introversive Political Meritocracy: A Political Possibility Beyond “The End of History”

Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2018
The criticisms of the falsity of universal recognition carried out by leftists, led by Karl Max, and the queries of its desirability proposed by rightists, represented by Friedrich Nietzsche, raise challenges to Francis Fukuyama’s theory of “the end of history” from two opposite directions.
Guodong Sun
exaly   +2 more sources

Political meritocracy and populism: cure or curse?

Democratization, 2021
A decade ago, populism was described as being “on the rise globally”. Now, even in the world’s strongest democracies, it has become a predominant and worrying phenomenon, to such an extent that res...
openaire   +3 more sources

Political Meritocracy Based on Public Reason

Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Wang Zhiwei
exaly   +2 more sources

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