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    Title
    Meritocracy and Americans' Views on Distributive Justice
    Authors and contributors
    By (author) Richard T. Longoria
    Physical properties
    Format: Hardback
    Number of pages: 170
    Width: 163 mm
    Height: 241 mm
    Thickness: 17 mm
    Weight: 390 g
    Audience
    College/higher education
    General/trade
    Professional and scholarly
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9780739123485
    ISBN 10: 0739123483
    Classifications
    BICMainSubject: WZ
    Dewey: 305.513
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: S3.0
    BISAC category code: POL007000
    BISAC category code: SOC000000
    Publisher
    Lexington Books
    Imprint name
    Lexington Books
    Publication date
    16 December 2008
    Publication City/Country
    Lanham, MD/US
    Review quote
    Negative review. CHOICE, November 2009 How can Americans "tolerate such unmeritocratic reality," given that they claim to value meritocracy? In Meritocracy and Americans' Views on Distributive Justice , Richard T. Longoria sets out to analyze Americans' contradictory relationship to the meritocratic ethos... the project Longoria undertakes does succeed in calling attention to Americans' contradictory sentiments about meritocratic ideals. Political Science Quarterly, Winter 2009-10 In this a very readable and compelling book, Richard Longoria vividly exposes the dilemma of the contradictory public attitudes and beliefs about meritocracy that Americans hold and what this means for 'public' policy and the prospect for American democracy. -- Stephen J. McNamee, professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina Wilmington
    Biographical note
    Richard T. Longoria is assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at National-Louis University in Chicago.
    Table of contents
    1 Table of Contents 2 List of Tables 3 Preface 4 Acknowledgments Chapter 5 1. What is Meritocracy? Chapter 6 2. Understanding Public Opinion and the Philosophical Debate Chapter 7 3. Popular Ideas Concerning Meritocracy Chapter 8 4. Meritocracy Revealed: The Case of Inheritance and Its Taxation Chapter 9 5. Meritocracy Revealed: The Case of Affirmative Action Chapter 10 6. The Consequences for American Democracy Chapter 11 7. Conclusions 12 Bibliography