Merit the history of a founding ideal from the American Revolution to the twenty-first century /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | American institutions and society
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.