Research Catalog

Title

The future of merit : twenty years after the Civil Service Reform Act / edited by James P. Pfiffner and Douglas A. Brook.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2000.

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Additional Authors

• Pfiffner, James P.
• Brook, Douglas Alan, 1944-

Description

xiii, 268 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Civil service reform > United States
• Civil service > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-252) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Michael J. Lacey. -- Preface. -- Introduction : Merit and the civil service reform act / Douglas A. Brook. -- Government legitimacy and the role of the civil service / James P. Pfiffner. -- What was behind the 1978 civil service reform? / Dwight Ink. -- The national performance review as implicit evaluation of CSRA : building on or overturning the legacy? / Carolyn Ban. -- Senior executives in a changing political environment / Joel D. Aberbach and Bert A Rockman. -- Evolving dimensions of performance from the CSRA onward / Patricia W. Ingraham and Donald P. Moynihan. -- Civil service reform and incentives in the public service / Hal G. Rainey and J. Edward Kellough. -- Accountability implications of civil service reform / Barbara S. Romzek. -- Onto the darkling plain : globalization and the American public service in the twenty-first century / Mark W. Huddleston. -- Politics of transition from the administrative to the facilitative state / Chester A. Newland. -- The future of merit / Hugh Heclo.

ISBN

0801864658 (paper : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^00009187^

OCLC

• 43953878
• SCSB-11656017

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library