Ineffective Obsessions in Brazilian Academia and Proposals Towards Meritocracy

Essays Meritocracy and Brazilian Society down with Meritocracy

“Down with meritocracy” is a frequent sentence in posters displaying demands from different professional categories on strike and other union demands in Brazil. So, it is far from being new. What is interesting, in the present moment, is that this demand – “down with meritocracy” – is reproduced simultaneously with a Brazilian party-political, administrative and institutional discourse change, ...

Obsessions Revisited

Sexual obsessions and OCD

Sexual obsessions are common symptoms of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). The literal content of these obsessions superŽ cially resembles other types of iterative sexual ideation, as seen in the paraphilias, PTSD, and normal sexual fantasy. However, their form, function, and effect on behavior vary greatly. A failure to distinguish these different categories of sexual thought can lead to co...

Affirmative Action, Meritocracy, and Efficiency on Behalf Of: Affirmative Action, Meritocracy, and Efficiency

This article provides a framework for comparing meritocratic and affirmative action admissions policies. The context of the analysis is admissions to public universities; admission rules are evaluated as part of the public investment problem faced by a state government. Meritocratic and affirmative admissions policies are compared in terms of their effects on the level and distribution of human...

Gender, race, and meritocracy in organizational careers.

This study helps to fill a significant gap in the literature on organizations and inequality by investigating the central role of merit-based reward systems in shaping gender and racial disparities in wages and promotions. The author develops and tests a set of propositions isolating processes of performance-reward bias, whereby women and minorities receive less compensation than white men with...