Place

Meritocracy

Overview

political system in which capital is assigned on the basis of competence

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Meritocracy

• John Rawls
• Shen Buhai
• Voltaire
• Xenophon
• Shang Yang
• Michael Sandel
• Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
• Petre P. Negulescu

Place in the tradition

Part of Confucianism.

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