meritocracy
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For the first time in the 20th century, Britain's agonisingly slow progress towards meritocracy went into reverse.
government or the holding of power by people selected on the basis of their ability.
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Gillmor outlines a utopian world of media 'meritocracy' , where a blogger with a tiny readership can compete on equal terms with the New York Times or the BBC.
Social mobility will therefore be high during the transition period to a 'meritocracy' and as society becomes more equal.
They would call this a 'meritocracy' , others would see it merely entrenching the moneyed aristocracy.
I may no longer be the communist of my youth, but I do believe in a 'meritocracy' where people can get on in life thanks to their own efforts.
Many liberal democracies, Britain included, justify wide disparities in the income levels of the rich and poor in terms of a doctrine of 'meritocracy' .
He did his best, offering equal citizenship, collective solidarity, 'meritocracy' and mutual respect as his core Party values.
Either way, post War British educational and welfare state policies was always going to create a new nationalist 'meritocracy' in the North that the old unionist territorial headlands could not contain.
Given the names initially under consideration and the ones denied an airing, it is obvious that political unions rather than 'meritocracy' still carry the greater weight.
Sure, we spend billions each year on college sports but we are willing to give all that up for an academic 'meritocracy' based upon infallible test scores.
The founder of the National Outdoor Leadership School, proposed a 'meritocracy' , giving priority to those best educated in wilderness skills.
Surveying this phenomenon has led me to review my own rise in the academic 'meritocracy' , with surprising results.
He built a multiracial 'meritocracy' that insists on tolerance, lawfulness and freedom from crime.
‘The industry became more of a 'meritocracy' ,’ says Kurt Cerulli of Boston's Cerulli Associates Inc.
A true 'meritocracy' is tougher in this regard (note that affirmative action may benefit some whites, for this reason).
The political system, however, is not a 'meritocracy' in the same sense.
Accordingly, Napoleon's 'meritocracy' channelled the gifted and diligent into an educational system which was geared to serving the needs of the regime.
The governing class, defended as a 'meritocracy' , resembles nothing more than the Chinese mandarinate.
We have a 'meritocracy' of money in which good public education is passed on from one generation to the next.
It's the end of 'meritocracy' , let alone democracy.
In his first Observer article Hattersley complained that 'meritocracy' was incompatible with social democracy.
For the first time in the 20th century, Britain's agonisingly slow progress towards 'meritocracy' went into reverse.
But perhaps he overestimates the sturdiness of the SAT-based 'meritocracy' that he wishes to see deposed.
She then went on to talk gushingly about the joys of a 'meritocracy' - a society in which people are rewarded on the basis of merit, rather than on any other basis.
They considered themselves a landed 'meritocracy' rather than a regressive aristocracy.
Because of people such as them, sports is the closest thing America has to a true 'meritocracy' .
Whether you live in a feudal system or a 'meritocracy' , the only ambitions worth having are for your soul.
As he explains it, ‘This is supposed to be a 'meritocracy' and you're supposed to earn what you have.’
A genuine political 'meritocracy' would be representative of the general population, because it would include people from all genders and communities and would exclude only those without merit.
The problem with Liang's novels is that it is a rigid 'meritocracy' - people are graded on their martial art skills, and when a superior fighter encounters an inferior fighter, the outcome is always the same.
What is happening to the campaigning steamroller that was going to propel the new prophets of technocratic and 'meritocracy' craving Labor into power?
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