Umfang:
Online-Ressource (344 p)
ISBN:
9780801451225
Serie:
American Institutions and Society
Inhalt:
Merit -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Faces of Merit -- 1. Republic of Merit -- 2. Merit and the Culture of Public Life -- 3. Small Worlds: Competition in the Colleges -- 4. Making the Grade: Managed Competition and Schooling -- 5. The Scientific Measurement of Merit -- 6. The "Presumption of Merit": Institutionalizing Merit -- 7. Squeeze Play: Merit in Government -- 8. Merit in Crisis -- Epilogue: Merit, Equality, Consent -- Notes -- Index.
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780801467677
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780801451225
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version Merit : The History of a Founding Ideal from the American Revolution to the Twenty-First Century
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
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