ADJ | meritocratic | more meritocratic | most meritocratic | |
ADJ positive | comparative | superlative
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- The efforts Thompson and others played an important role in transforming Trinity College and Cambridge University into more meritocratic institutions.
- Then he states that the 'Internet Culture' is structured by four kinds of culture including: 'the techno-meritocratic culture', 'the hacker culture', 'the virtual communication culture', and 'the entrepreneurial culture'.
- The origin of the modern meritocratic civil service can be traced back to Imperial examination founded in Imperial China.
- On the other hand, more democratically inclined theorists have pointed to examples of meritocratic leaders, such as the Napoleonic marshals profiting from careers open to talent.
- Aebischer was influenced and inspired by the "American model" of university management, which he describes as a meritocratic system that encourages innovation.
- Club Feminino belonged to the leading women's organisations of pre-revolutionary Cuba, alongside the reformist Partido Democrata Sufragista, the liberal Alianza Nacional Feminista, the cultural Lyceum Lawn/Tennis Club, and the marxist meritocratic Union Laborista de Mujeres.
- The Minh Mạng Emperor's reforms transformed the Vietnamese bureaucracy from a military apparatus created under Gia Long associated with generals, under the direction of the "Công Đồng" (公同, "Council"), mainly through top-down orders into a highly centralised meritocratic system.
- A 2018 research by Dr Magdalena Nowicka, published in the "Journal of Intercultural Studies", detailed data-studies which revealed how some people within the group aspired for, or achieved, increased social status by embracing the meritocratic values of the white British class.
- These observations made her question the meritocratic society she once thought existed in her field.
- It propounds such Mohist ideas as impartiality, meritocratic governance, economic growth and aversion to ostentation, and is known for its plain and simple language.
- Komsomol adopted meritocratic, supposedly class-blind membership policies in 1935, but the result was a decline in working-class youth members, and a dominance by the better educated youth.
- It argues that Western democracies have become stymied by populism and short-term thinking, while authoritarian Eastern nations, notably China, need to bolster their meritocratic but authoritarian systems with the popular legitimacy characteristic of Western polities.
- Until the Cardwell Reforms of 1871, commissions in the British Army were purchased by officers. The Royal Navy, however, operated on a more meritocratic, or at least socially mobile, basis.
- RIS is a meritocratic school: advancement is based on individual ability and achievement.
- Raab argued for a meritocratic approach against positive discrimination and highlighted the lower standard of human rights protections in extradition cases compared with deportation cases.
- Since pay was based on nominations received, the system has been described as highly meritocratic.
- Although meritocratic selection should result in the best being chosen, she shows that meritocratic recruitment actually leads to class stratification and auto-recruitment.
- As people rise in a meritocratic society through the social hierarchy through their demonstrated merit, they eventually reach, and become stuck, at a level too difficult for them to perform effectively; they are promoted to incompetence.
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