Traditionally, the middle class has supported meritocracy and upward mobility, more than the elite has done.
Standardized test may not be the reason why but they certainly help entrench a false meritocracy.
It really is a meritocracy based on this notion of equity becoming worth something.
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Unlike many other areas of the world, America mostly is a meritocracy facilitated by education.
The more important gauge of a meritocracy, however, is relative mobility, particularly between generations.
In my last post I discussed a structural reason why meritocracy may tend to breed corruption.
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The bureaucrats not only reformed China's monstrously inefficient state-owned enterprises, but also introduced some meritocracy to appointments.
Chase attributes its success to a distinctive approach to integrating the merged firms based on team-building and meritocracy.
The attempt is grotesque and ethos of meritocracy do not even afford us the appropriate means of redress.
Meritocracy is impossible in theory or practice without social structures that set and enforce sportsmanlike rules of the game.
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Baseball players consider the competition for roster spots to be fair, a meritocracy.
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Myhrvold says that a meritocracy is the best way to run an industry.
You do that by providing a fair, respectful working environment and a meritocracy.
The New York City institution was founded by industrialist Peter Cooper, who hoped it would be a meritocracy open to all.
The country or region of origin of a candidate is more important than the nominee's credentials and qualifications: no meritocracy there.
The rise of the American meritocracy after World War II coincided with the decline of Northeastern WASPs in America's social hierarchies.
But he eventually pulled himself together and joined the American meritocracy, attending Occidental College, Columbia University and, later, Harvard Law School.
The US has, in contrast, been more open to promoting greater openness, transparency, accountability and meritocracy in the international financial institutions.
But what if China is rising despite its autocratic model, which inhibits such drivers of success as meritocracy, transparency and creativity?
Nor is there any doubt that in many cases low female representation also reflects a broader lack of meritocracy in corporate culture.
Being content with your station is, of course, antithetical to the American class system, which presents itself, with some justification, as a meritocracy.
In that case, many companies will wake up from a government-funded hangover absent the innovative skills necessary to survive in a true meritocracy.
Mr Gandhi railed against the "gross" centralisation of political power by the elites, and the lack of meritocracy in politics and public systems.
At Namaste Solar, the company created a complete meritocracy wherein individuals assume responsibilities based on proven competencies so they feel empowered to make decisions.
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Secondly, opponents say affirmative action undermines equality of opportunity and meritocracy fragile concepts in Brazil, where privilege, nepotism and contacts have long been routes to advancement.
Our survey does not necessarily prove that meritocracy is a myth.
Wall Street prides itself on being a meritocracy, but those who fail spectacularly often get a second chance: think of John Meriwether of Long-Term Capital Management.
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Perhaps most significantly, information flows between employees, and between employees and the outside world via traditional social media tools, can create greater workplace democracy and meritocracy.
"If you ask whether the party can have a meritocracy that produces good leaders, my answer is they haven't done so bad so far, " he said.
But the most painful revelation of the debate on high pay may be this: many Britons are not convinced that they live in a functioning meritocracy.
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