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

Main Author: Kett, Joseph F.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Merit (Ethics) > Social aspects > United States.
Social values > History. > United States
National characteristics, American > History.
United States > History.
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10639741
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.

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