Merit : the history of a founding ideal from the American Revolution to the twenty-first century / / Joseph F. Kett.
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | American institutions and society
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| Physical Description: | ix, 332 p. |
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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.