Political Studies |
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Author:
| Brodrick, George Charles |
ISBN: | 978-0-217-86630-9 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2009 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $30.15 |
Book Description:
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PEOMOTION BY MERIT IN RELATION TO GOVEKNMENT AND EDUCATION. 1858. There are certain questions which frequently occupy public attention, without inspiring a very deep interest, or pressing for an immediate solution. They are known to concern everybody; they cannot therefore be supposed to concern one more...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PEOMOTION BY MERIT IN RELATION TO GOVEKNMENT AND EDUCATION. 1858. There are certain questions which frequently occupy public attention, without inspiring a very deep interest, or pressing for an immediate solution. They are known to concern everybody; they cannot therefore be supposed to concern one more than another; and as they do not come to a crisis, they can be postponed, like the Chinese war, till more urgent affairs are settled. It would be well for them if they operated directly on the gains of some well-defined class or compact profession. For measures of that kind bring up with them a little whirlwind of petitions, obtain vigorous Parliamentary advocacy, and, wafted into success no less by futile reclamations than by the plaudits of triumph, take their place among the achievements of the session. It is otherwise with the greater problems of politics. No little faith in the ultimate ascendancy of calm judgment and reason is required of him who would plead a cause which labours under the double disadvantage, of being distasteful to a smah1 but influential fraternity, and of appealing to interests too comprehensive to be popular. Such is the real position of Promotion by Merit, a term by which I understand that principle according to which the honours of the State would, so far as is practicable, be conferred on the most capable, and an exclusive regard to ascertained merit would govern all promotions, properly so called, in the permanent branches of the public service. The three departments of it to which this system has been already partially applied are, the Civil Service of this country, the Indian Civil Service, and the Scientific Corps of the Army. However much encumbered by vexed questions properly belonging to the narrower and more technical ground of comp...