Meritocracies aspire to reward effort and hard work but promise not judge individuals by the circumstances they were born into. The choice is, however, often shaped circumstances. This study investigates whether people's merit judgments are sensitive this endogeneity of choice. In a series incentivized experiments with large, representative US sample, participants how much money two workers des...

Although researchers have focused on different aspects to explain the success of populist movements, perceptions unfairness continue highly overlooked. Despite difficulty in finding evidence, I intend elucidate growing unfairness, anger it causes, and its impact electoral radical left right movements by investigating spread meritocracy discourse ideological repositioning political parties. argu...

The projects of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) enjoy wide acceptance both in the marketplace and in the OSS development community. According to a recent web server survey by Netcraft (2005), the Apache webserver and its derivatives have attained a dominant 70% share of the web-server market, and the Apache webserver software is installed at more than 44 million sites worldwide. Similarly,...

We solve the problem of collusion in massive online tournaments (of formal scientific communities) which, surprisingly, has a simple yet rather counterintuitive solution. The solution requires that we collect the participants’ side-choices of whether they want to be proponent or opponent of a given claim, leading to the concept of a forced player or a devil’s advocate. In the presence of side-c...

Meritokrasi, güç ve yetkilerin, görev sorumlulukların aile, servet veya sosyal sınıftan ziyade bilgi, beceri, yeterlilik, yetenek, çaba, çalışma ahlakı, erdem başarı temelinde dağıtıldığı bir sistemin adıdır. Meritokrasi kavramı sosyolog Michael Young tarafından 1958'de yayınlanan Meritokrasi’nin Yükselişi adlı kitapta kullanılmıştır bu meritokrasiyi anlamak için en önemli metinlerden biri olma...