Trustworthiness

The Revolt of the Meritocrats

Financial viability

A proposed banking union would help to separate the commercial banks creditworthiness from that of their government.

The Rise and Fall of Meritocracy

It means rule by those who have merit.

Two roads to sustained viability

Meritocracy is at the core of American conservative beliefs.

As it happens, the Chinese Communist Party is becoming more meritocratic.

Meritocracy the word sounds nothing but good.

make employment decisions based on merit and provide a workplace that is free from discrimination and recognizes the diverse background of employees.

Such merit is usually understood to be academic achievement, a combination of talent and training.

They anticipate revenue in order to appear creditworthy.

He changed the administration of the state through an emphasis on meritocracy and devolving power from the nobility.

It rewards ambition, promotes office at any cost politics, and devalues merit.

Country level presence and capacity are important parts of future viability.

The new underclass is the other side of the meritocratic elite.

The Public Service has provisions to select appointees based on merit'.

Most of these parties are led by political dynasties that prize loyalty over merit.

In subsequent Chinese history, the meritocratic ideal was institutionalized by means of the Imperial examination system.

When merit is measured by money, there is no ethical limit to the size of an individual s paycheck.

Merit and skills are how we give an intrinsic value to money.

For many, France has long been the epitome of meritocracy.

Meritocracy was Young s 1984.

Japan s meritocratically selected bureaucracy, too, faces much the same public opprobrium.

Indeed, nowadays meritocracy seems to be simply another version of the inequality that characterises all societies.

And it is, again, linked to something nice, and that nice thing is called meritocracy.

(a) That are based on principles of efficiency, transparency and objective criteria such as merit, equity and aptitude

In a similar vein, the Confucian tradition has long emphasized the value of political meritocracy.

That should be the task of meritocratically selected elites.

So meritocracy seems preferable, at least at first sight.

Recruitment into the Government sector was conducted by the Civil Service Commission on the basis of merit.

If current practices are maintained, the choice for this key post will be made on the basis of nationality, not merit.

The Chinese government services supply chain also benefited substantially from a meritocratic human resources tradition.

Under China s current institutional arrangements, meritocracy is a prerequisite for good governance.

But meritocracy has been eroded by a political culture of sycophancy and cynicism.

The next managing director should be selected on the merits, not on the basis of nationality.

Aptitude is not developed knowledge, understanding, learned or acquired abilities (skills) or attitude.

Reforms to patronage systems most often produce bureaucratic merit systems.

The final selection is based entirely upon merit regardless of gender.

While a view was expressed that prohibiting derogation from the seaworthiness obligations would not affect the rules with respect to limitations on liability, it was suggested that the overall implications arising from treating the seaworthiness obligations in this manner would require further consideration.

These senior officials are henceforth to be selected through an open, transparent, and merit based selection process.

Lenders (the bankers) are suspicious, worried about creditworthiness, and demand high risk premia.

When meritocracy is downgraded, as it has been during the Bush years, bad things happen.

Immigrants, in particular, do not enjoy the equality of opportunity that the word merit suggests.