He has also vowed to increase meritocracy in a culture of Ottoman-style patronage where party affiliation has often trumped skill in fierce competition for public-sector jobs.
During the campaign, Mr. Papandreou said he would bring in well-regarded financial experts from abroad and vowed to increase meritocracy in a system still dominated by political patronage.
It would help still more if he and Mr Brown would mark their distance from the new meritocracy by increasing income taxes on the rich, and also by reviving more powerful local government as a way of involving local people and giving them a training for national politics.
We're seeing managers in enormous corporations such as Google, Nokia, and Best Buy embrace things that benevolent hackers would pursue with or without them: greater worker control over tools and procedures, increased transparency, and meritocracy.
He first campaigned for the presidency on a platform of stamping out corruption, nepotism and intolerance - and pushed for investment in education, meritocracy and increased use of technology in governance.
Thus, from a national policy perspective, the appropriate degree of meritocracy depends on health system governance preferences, as well as broader state goals, such as increasing minority representation in the bureaucracy.
Katherine Ebert Wellesley Hills, Mass., Feb. 19, 2010 To the Editor: David Brooks astutely bemoans the failure of American government to fulfill the "promise of the meritocracy," correlating the increased talent level and work ethic that characterize many of today's more modern leaders with an actual decrease in their public standing.
Seen in this light, invoking meritocracy as a justification for eschewing efforts to increase diversity, is not simply an "unrealistic dream" but a rather grotesque, horrible fabrication.
Despite the political stagnation, three sets of reforms have continued: expanding multi-candidate elections to local level party committees; increased transparency in local budgeting and resource allocation; and efforts to improve meritocracy at all levels of the party and government.
Thanks to the support of hundreds of donors, we have seen the undergraduate community become more diverse as increased financial aid helps to ensure that we live up to our credo as a true meritocracy.
