The Merit System and Municipal Civil Service: A Fostering of Social Inequality
(Book #201 in the Contributions in Political Science Series)
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Frances Gottfried offers a thorough-going critique of municipal civil service systems and the principles of meritocracy that underlie them, focusing especially on the social inequities and entrenchment of power that continue to bedevil the public sector. Beginning with an examination of the principles and history of the merit system, the author challenges the assumption that a real meritocracy does in fact exist. She looks at current practices and...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0313257418
ISBN13:9780313257414
Release Date:February 1988
Publisher:Praeger
Length:202 Pages
Weight:0.89 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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