Clear rules that encourage meritocracy, and that include the evaluation of scholarly productivity, are slowly and unevenly taking hold in academic life in Latin America. While some countries have official rankings of political science departments, others rely only on informal assessments. In a third set of countries, we cannot even consider the competition because the market is dominated by a s...

In two experiments, participants judged the fairness of different distributions of wealth in hypothetical societies. In the first study, the level of meritocracy in the hypothetical societies and the frame of reference from which participants judged alternative distributions of wealth interacted to influence fairness judgments. As meritocracy increased, all participants became more tolerant of ...

Contact with the dominant group can increase opposition, among the disadvantaged, to social policies that would benefit their group. This effect can be explained in terms of contact promoting support for an ideology of meritocracy, which privileges the distribution of societal resources based on individual merit, rather than group-level disadvantage. We tested this ideological mechanism in a la...

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...

This study seeks to assess the influence of engagement strategies on employee retention in Nigeria. Three (3) (meritocracy, employer branding, and succession planning) were assessed retention. The descriptive survey design primary data (questionnaires) employed. questionnaire was administered 300 employees oil gas firms obtained analyzed using both (mean) inferential (Spearman Rank Correlation)...