When Patronage Meets Meritocracy: Or, The Italian Academic Concorso As Cockfight

Moss, David

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When Patronage Meets Meritocracy: Or, The Italian Academic Concorso As Cockfight

Date

2012

Authors

Moss, David

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Abstract

Abstract For more than a century the processes of making academic appointments to Italian universities have regularly made news a- bad news. The charges are serious: abuses of professorial power, collusion to fix outcomes in advance, favouritism to loyal