Merit the history of a founding ideal from the American Revolution to the twenty-first century /

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Hovedforfatter: Kett, Joseph F.
Institution som forfatter: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronisk eBog
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.
Serier:American institutions and society
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • Introduction : the faces of merit
  • Republic of merit
  • Merit and the culture of public life
  • Small worlds : competition in the colleges
  • Making the grade : managed competition and schooling
  • The scientific measurement of merit
  • The "presumption of merit" : institutionalizing merit
  • Squeeze play : merit in government
  • Merit in crisis
  • Epilogue : merit, equality, consent.