Assessing Meritocracy

Conference | One-Time Event
Location The University of Chicago John W. Boyer Center in Paris 41 rue des Grands Moulins 75013 Paris, France
Organizers Steven Durlauf, Geoffrey Wodtke

Assessing Meritocracy will bring together international academics to explore normative and positive dimensions of meritocracy, with some focus on comparative aspects of meritocratic institutions across regions. We aim to develop work on meritocracy that employs commonalities and heterogeneities between countries in order to understand how different societies have operationalized meritocracy and how this operationalization has realized meritocratic goals and affected inequality. This conference is the first in a series and will generate long-term collaborations with interdisciplinary scholars interested in evaluating the positive and normative aspects of meritocracy.

Participation is by invitation only.