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The higher civil service in the United States : quest for reform / Mark W. Huddleston and William W. Boyer.

Title
The higher civil service in the United States : quest for reform / Mark W. Huddleston and William W. Boyer.
Author
Huddleston, Mark W.
Publication
Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, c1996.

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Additional Authors
Boyer, William W.
Description
x, 229 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Pitt series in policy and institutional studies
Uniform Title
Pitt series in policy and institutional studies.
Subject
  • Civil service reform > United States > History
  • Civil service > United States > Personnel management
  • Government executives > United States
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-221) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
I. Bureaucratic Elites in History -- II. Background to the Supergrades -- III. The Second Hoover Commission's Proposal -- IV. Circumventing Congress -- V. Nixon's Proposal for a Federal Executive Service -- VI. The Making of the Senior Executive Service -- VII. Reform in Action: The Senior Executive Service, 1979-1994 -- VIII. Images of the U.S. Higher Civil Service -- IX. Conclusion: Whither the Senior Executive Service?
ISBN
  • 0822939061 (cl)
  • 0822955741 (pb)
LCCN
^^^95032780^
OCLC
32820708
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library