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Kirsty Morrin It is now often forgotten that Michael Young’s The Rise of the Meritocracy deployed ‘meritocracy’ as [...]

Anselma Gallinat At the conference ‘Merit or Meritocracy?’, which preceded this special issue, David Civil asked us what [...]

Sam Shields There are differential patterns of access to higher education for men and women. More women than [...]

Geoff Payne Although ‘social mobility analysis’ is an established field of academic research, while ‘meritocracy studies’ is not, [...]

Daniel Smith In The Rise of the Meritocracy, 1870-2033, Young warned of a new aristocracy where individuals could [...]

Tony Chapman When Michael Young wrote The Rise of the Meritocracy, it was acceptable in most political circles [...]

Jo Littler Why is the idea of meritocracy – the idea that society should be organised so that [...]

Angus McVittie This article considers the themes of Young’s book The Rise of the Meritocracy alongside an [...]

Hugo Radice The concept of ‘meritocracy’ is today generally understood as a positive one, meaning equality of opportunity [...]

Vincent Guermond and Ndongo Samba Sylla In monetary and financial matters, colonial relationships continue to be alive in [...]