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Electronic Book

Author

Kett, Joseph F.

Title Merit [electronic resource] : the history of a founding ideal from the American Revolution to the twenty-first century / Joseph F. Kett.

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Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.

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Available to Pittsburg State University patrons only.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	ix, 332 p.
Series	American institutions and society
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject	Merit (Ethics) -- Social aspects -- United States.
	Social values -- United States -- History.
	National characteristics, American -- History.
	United States -- History.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN	9780801451225 (cloth : alk. paper)
	9780801467677 (electronic bk.)