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	Meritocracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Meritocratic governments and organisations stress talent, formal education, and competence, rather than existing differences such as social class, ethnicity, or sex.
		In a representative democracy where power is theoretically in the hands of the elected representatives, meritocratic elements include the use of expert consultants to help formulate policies, and a meritocratic civil service to implement them.
		Proponents of meritocracy argue that a meritocratic system is more just and more productive than other systems, and that it allows for an end to distinctions based on such things as sex and race (though social classes would still exist).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Meritocracy (1367 words)

	Seven Times Six: Meritocratic democracy
		The legislature, however, is not meritocratic in the least.
		And these legislature guys enjoy control over the executive - the various secretaries heading the various civil service departments report to some cabinet minister or the prime-minister/president (who is also sometimes called the chief-executive for that reason), as also over the judiciary - where many top judicial posts are appointed by the prime-minister/president.
		It does not - because ultimately those who own the company should be able to decide the direction of the company, the broad high level path it should follow.
	seven_times_six.blogspot.com /2005/02/meritocratic-democracy.html (559 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Nonetheless, even if we momentarily set aside the issue of whether the entrance system (i.e., whether the student is accepted on the basis of a recommendation or having passed the school’s entrance examination) is fair, one is left with the issue of whether the students were ever on a level playing field.
		Focussing on our question of the meritocratic nature of the Japanese education system, the key point to bear in mind is that access to juku is not something that can be guaranteed for all.
		Yet, as we have already mentioned for entrance to upper secondary school, the entrance is influenced by many external factors, in particular the region in which the student studies and the amount of money that their family has available to spend on education, especially juku.
	www.hood-online.co.uk /academic/articles/Meritocratic.doc (1735 words)

	Edit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		The reason that Blair is under the impression that Britain isn’t meritocratic is probably due to the fact that for 30 or 40 years the sociological establishment in Britain has been telling him and other politicians that it isn’t a meritocracy.
		This can translate to a meritocratic society: those who stay at the bottom become resentful, and those who do move up aren’t grateful because they are unable to appreciate the advantage of their situation.
		The meritocrat says it is justifiable to set the minimum wage lower than everyone else because young people by and large are less experienced, they’ve probably had less training, and they’re probably not as good at the job.
	www.cis.org.au /Events/bertkelly/bk299text.htm (4073 words)

	Goldfish Chronicles : Weblog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		This means that the chair is being meritocratic in many places, because they are filling in the gaps that people don't care about.
		Thus one can find oneself being meritocratic on relatively weighty issues and the direct community to gain consensus from is actually very small.
		Despotism is no bad thing in the short term, but in the long term it creates reliance on a singleton and as we are all mortal (attention-span of 2 years it seems) the loss of that singleton can sap momentum.
	blog.generationjava.com /roller/page/bayard/20050319 (1371 words)

	meritocracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		In a second project Sheri L. Kunovich and Kazimierz M. Slomczynski analyze to what extent the variation in the degree to which meritocracy is achieved across countries influences people' support for such a system.
		Both modernization and post-industrial theories suggest that persons living in countries with a high degree of societal meritocracy are expected to hold stronger meritocratic beliefs than persons living in countries with low degree of societal meritocracy.
		Results of multi-level regression analysis of the 1992 ISSP data indicate that the effect of societal meritocracy on meritocratic attitudes appears substantial.
	www.sociology.ohio-state.edu /kms/rsrchproj/meritoc.htm (311 words)

	Analytical Summary of The Assault on Equality
		The meritocratic caste paradox is internally inconsistent and rests on counter-factual hidden premises.
		The meritocratic caste paradox and The Bell Curve as a whole are based on reductionist analyses which ask the wrong questions for social policy.
		The argument that this is a meritocratic society or that federal interventions are unnecessary, must deal with the issue of race.
	www94.homepage.villanova.edu /peter.knapp/AOE.htm (2810 words)

	Lemann.bellcurve (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Even if you trimmed the meritocratic elite back from one fifth to, say, one hundredth of the population, there would stlll be a big problem with the cognitive elite theory, arising from the sociology of its members.
		Let's say that Herrnstein and Murray are right that the most selective colleges today efficiently "soak up" virtually all the American adolescents with the highest IQs and that these people are plainly the most able members of their age cohort.
		So a stampede into the professions, driven by risk aversion, is a key cultural phenomenon for meritocratic Ivy League students, the subject of many hand-wringing commencement speeches (and, years later, of the students' middle-aged longueurs).
	www.haverford.edu /psych/ddavis/psych212h/lemann.bellcurve.html (289 words)

	Catallarchy » Peak Mobility
		A perfectly meritocratic economy is one in which incomes are directly proportional to productivity, so that the most productive citizen will have the highest income, and the least productive will have the lowest income.
		Since we now have a perfectly meritocratic economy, there’s a great deal of movement among income brackets in this generation, and each person’s income is completely independent of his parents’.
		The takeaway message isn’t that the United States is a perfectly meritocratic society; it’s that increases in social mobility throw an economy into disequilibrium, which may create an unsustainable level of movement among income brackets as the most economically fit take advantage of newly available opportunities.
	catallarchy.net /blog/archives/2005/10/27/peak-mobility (3375 words)

	To what extent is the Irish Education system meritocratic?
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		We have looked at the different theoretical bases, which could be applied to the Irish education system as well as where and how meritocracy can be seen.
		It now important for us to look at the extent to which the system is meritocratic.
	www.coursework.info /i/74227.html (682 words)

	Left2Right: on equality and meritocracy
		Very roughly, a regime is meritocratic to the extent that people are judged on the merits of their performance.
		A corporation is meritocratic as it ties promotions to performance, and departs from meritocracy as it ties promotions to seniority.
		One thing egalitarians and meritocrats might equally (and meritoriously) bemoan is the extent to which simple dumb luck leads to what both sides would consider unjust results.
	left2right.typepad.com /main/2004/12/on_equality_and.html (9652 words)

	60 Seconds On Status
		Therefore, the meritocratic idea that you "make your own luck" is a very punishing one and explains many people's anxiety and depression over the work they do.
		Many recruiters subscribe to a meritocratic view of education.
		But smart employers know true merit is an unexpected beast and doesn't always dwell in the "academic achievements" section of a resume.
	www.fastcompany.com /magazine/91/qa.html (360 words)

	Discriminations: Jeffrey Rosen: A Brown-Defying, Meritocratic, Quota-Mongering Preference Pusher Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Rosen's own conversion to preferences also had little to do with the rising chorus of claptrap about "diversity." He has become a devotee of preferences, even of quotas, because of his even deeper devotion to meritocratic standards.
		Thus, oddly, Rosen has now become a quota-mongering preference pusher precisely because he is a meritocrat.
		Since most elite institutions would abandon standards before abandoning diversity, Rosen believes that a racial double standard, requiring less from fls and Hispanics than from whites and Asians, will do less damage overall to high standards than holding everyone to the same standard.
	www.discriminations.us /storage/002070.html (1635 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Magazine \| The rise of the meritocracy
		It's been billed as the battle of aristocracy versus meritocracy; nobility against social mobility; the privileged as opposed to the talented.
		To Michael Young a meritocratic society paid lip service to equality, but in practice kept poor children down, by relegating most of them to second-class schools.
		It was Lord Young's ideas that inspired the shake up of secondary education in the 1960s, leading to the rise of comprehensive schools - where children of all abilities and backgrounds are brought together under one roof.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/magazine/4035181.stm (929 words)

	Pandagon: Meritocratically Dumber Than A Sack Of Rocks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		This he partly blames on the abolition by equality-minded Laborites years ago of the academically demanding grammar schools that were the routes out of the working class for so many Labor politicians themselves.
		Unable to make the argument that we actually live in a meritocracy, he argues instead that a system which bases success on a distinctly unmeritocratic process is meritocratic by virtue of its final decision.
		The intelligence needed to get a place in the cognitive elite may become more concentrated in a fair meritocratic society, but the personal behaviors needed to find a valued place in society are available to everyone.
	www.pandagon.net /archives/2005/08/meritocraticall.html (2427 words)

	Demonstrate how social class continues to affect the educational attainment of an individual despite living in a so ...
		Demonstrate how social class continues to affect the educational attainment of an individual despite living in a so called meritocratic society.
		Coursework and Essays: Uncategorised: Section 3: Demonstrate how social class continues to affect the educational attainment of an individual despite living in a so called meritocratic society
		Below is a short sample of the essay "Demonstrate how social class continues to affect the educational attainment of an individual despite living in a so called meritocratic society.".
	www.coursework.info /i/49928.html (402 words)

	John Derbyshire on NRO
		The elite we are actually going to get is, of course, meritocratic.
		The elite of a hundred years ago was very heavily — in some key areas, exclusively — male and WASP; the meritocratic elite of tomorrow looks like America.
		The downside is that to get into the meritocratic elite you have to pass a lot of exams and get good reports from those who teach you, so the meritocratic elite is weighted toward bookish, well-behaved conformists.
	www.nationalreview.com /derbyshire/derbyshireprint032301.html (1656 words)

	SSRN-The Role of Higher Education Institutions: Recruitment of Elites and Economic Growth by Elise Brezis, François ...
		The main change that occurred in the way the Western world trained its elites is that meritocracy became the basis for their recruitment.
		Although meritocratic selection should result in the best being chosen, we show that meritocratic recruitment actually leads to class stratification and auto-recruitment.
		We analyze the consequences of stratification resulting from meritocratic selection for the development of a country, and show that these consequences are dependent upon the type of technological changes occurring in the country.
	papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=641302 (299 words)

	Yale Review of Books: The Big Test
		Lemann wants to present us with the tragedy of the poor and minority students against whom the SAT, and the meritocratic system in general, discriminate.
		People can have all kinds of worthy qualities, and it’s not clear that test-taking ability ought to be the one that determines their fates.
		Lemann seems honestly to believe this, even though he himself-a Harvard graduate and a staff writer at The New Yorker-is a creature of the meritocratic system.
	www.yale.edu /yrb/summer00/review8.htm (1199 words)

	University of Cambridge -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		In addition, in recent years admissions tutors in certain technical subjects, for example mathematics, have required applicants to sit the more difficult (additional info and facts about STEP papers) STEP papers in addition to achieving top grades in their A-levels.
		However, there is still considerable public debate in Britain over whether admissions processes at Oxford and Cambridge are entirely meritocratic and fair, and whether enough students from state schools succeed in gaining entry.
		Almost 50% of the successful applicants come from (Private independent secondary school in Great Britain supported by endowment and tuition) public schools, but the average qualifications for these successful applicants are higher than for successful applicants from state schools.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/u/un/university_of_cambridge.htm (3277 words)

	Arcane Gazebo: The meritocratic margin of error (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		(I think in a strict sense I am misusing the term "meritocratic" which is supposed to refer to government.)
		Some [participants in the orkut discussion] seem to be arguing for a totally meritocratic admissions process.
		One could imagine a process in which the admissions committee distills each application into some single metric of qualification, something like a "predicted GPA".
	inverse.physics.berkeley.edu /archives/001009.html (451 words)

	Gene Expression: Education Archives
		As the authors put it, the educational system actually seems to have become less meritocratic, despite educational changes intended to reduce social advantage and disadvantage.
		Perhaps the most striking finding is that for children with high ability but low SES, the probability of obtaining a higher education qualification actually fell during the relevant interval, despite a general expansion of higher education.
		It appears to have moved from a position which was quite highly meritocratic to one which is in some respects less meritocratic.
	www.gnxp.com /MT2/archives/cat_education.html (7041 words)

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		My opinion is also based on my opinions of some of these programs and reforms.
		I know that I would like my classroom to be completely meritocratic based on some research that I have done for my Educational Theories and Policy class.
		I have learned a lot from some of the government's mistakes and I plan to create equal opportunity in my classroom.
	www.personal.psu.edu /students/a/l/alg948/c3.htm (522 words)

	Number 2 Pencil: Leave No Child Behind -
		This results in an interesting situation in which American society must adopt affirmative action (to make sure no American child fails), and must turn a blind eye to illegal immigration (to make sure the manual labor gets done):
		(3) Our very best efforts at creating a meritocratic education system always turn up the same unhappy results: students of Ashkenazi-Jewish and East or South Asian ancestry are over-represented among the educational successes, while students of West African ancestry are over-represented among the educational failures.
		(7) Adjustments to the meritocratic principle therefore need to be made: "affirmative action," imposed "diversity" quotas in businesses, anti-discrimination laws, and so on.
	www.kimberlyswygert.com /archives/000242.html (456 words)

	Resource Investor - Blog - The meritocratic ideal is in trouble in America
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		The meritocratic ideal is in trouble in America
	www.resourceinvestor.com /pebble.asp?relid=7710 (271 words)

	EconPapers: Class Ridden or Meritocratic? An Economic Analysis of Recent Changes in Britain
		Abstract: In a meritocratic society an individual's economic success is determined by their ability, not by their parents' socio-economic status.
		In Britain the production of human capital (cognitive ability and education) has become less meritocratic and more influenced by social background.
		Whilst cognitive ability is an important determinant of labour market success, there is only mild support for an increase in its importance.
	econpapers.repec.org /paper/izaizadps/dp677.htm (259 words)

	Supporting the Intellectual Life of a Democratic Society
		But many unfortunate dynamics have conspired to prevent the intellectual life of democratic society from reaching its full potential.
		Intellectual talent and achievement are often treated as the status markers of an elite, and the formally meritocratic procedures of democratic education can be used to increase the stigma associated with modest educational success.
		Intellectual snobbery can be used to control people, and it provokes intellectual insecurities and defensive reactions.
	polaris.gseis.ucla.edu /pagre/intellectual.html (7324 words)

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