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Merit : the history of a founding ideal from the American Revolution to the twenty-first century / Joseph F. Kett.
Van Pelt Library BJ1500.M47 K45 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kett, Joseph F.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Merit (Ethics)--Social aspects--United States.
- Merit (Ethics).
- Social values--United States--History.
- Social values.
- National characteristics, American--History.
- National characteristics, American.
- History.
- Social aspects.
- United States--History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 332 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801451225
- 0801451221
- OCLC:
- 799025032
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