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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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 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.
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.
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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He does, however, see a grain of truth in the notion that Asian mothers, more comfortable than Westerners with the idea of meritocracy, drive their children hard.
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Most advocates of markets have failed to fully make this distinction, perpetuating a cult of market meritocracy--something that has hindered, not helped, the cause of free markets.
So Silicon Valley may not have been the perfect meritocracy, but there is hope that it will soon be, and that our women may save the world.
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And though Rahul has spoken out for meritocracy, he proposes to lead that transition to meritocracy from a post he has gained chiefly thanks to his name.
Malay Singaporeans may still lag behind the Chinese and Indians in educational achievement but, with additional tuition, they have made enormous progress under our system of meritocracy.
At the same time, politicians promoted the idea of individualism and meritocracy, the theory that one's station in life was best changed by hard work and dedication.
He seems to assume that the status distinctions of the Indian Civil Service (an exam-based meritocracy) somehow sprang full-grown from the habit of rewarding Whig landowners with earldoms.
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