Meritocracy
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Meritocracy is a political system in which economic goods and/or political power are vested in individual people on the basis of talent, effort, and achievement, rather than wealth or social class. Advancement in such a system is based on performance, as measured through examination or demonstrated achievement. Although the concept of meritocracy has existed for centuries, the term itself was coined in 1958 by the sociologist Michael Dunlop Young in his satirical essay The Rise of the Meritocracy.
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See also
- Civil service entrance examination
- Differential Education Achievement
- Educational entrance examination
- Elitism
- Equality of opportunity vs. Equality of outcome
- Meritocracy in China
- Merit (Buddhism)
- Merit (Catholicism)
- Ownership society
- Social mobility
- Technocracy
- The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel.
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