The future of merit
Subtitle: twenty years after the Civil Service Reform Act
By: edited by James P. Pfiffner and Douglas A. Brook
Contributors: Pfiffner, James P; Brook, Douglas Alan, 1944-
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Johns Hopkins University Press; Brand: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Civil service reform -- United States; Civil service -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-252) and index
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Michael J. Lacey.; title: Preface.; title: Introduction : Merit and the civil service reform act / Douglas A. Brook.; title: Government legitimacy and the role of the civil service / James P. Pfiffner.; title: What was behind the 1978 civil service reform? / Dwight Ink.; title: The national performance review as implicit evaluation of CSRA : building on or overturning the legacy? / Carolyn Ban.; title: Senior executives in a changing political environment / Joel D. Aberbach and Bert A Rockman.; title: Evolving dimensions of performance from the CSRA onward / Patricia W. Ingraham and Donald P. Moynihan.; title: Civil service reform and incentives in the public service / Hal G. Rainey and J. Edward Kellough.; title: Accountability implications of civil service reform / Barbara S. Romzek.; title: Onto the darkling plain : globalization and the American public service in the twenty-first century / Mark W. Huddleston.; title: Politics of transition from the administrative to the facilitative state / Chester A. Newland.; title: The future of merit / Hugh Heclo