Talk:Civil service reform

Fmanheim (talk) 06:03, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

Needs more balance
This page needs a more balanced treatment of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, promoted by President Jimmy Carter. Carter wanted more power to manage federal agencies, that he felt were insufficiently responsive to presidential policies. The new CSRA included a Senior Executive Service designed to provide a mobile cadre of expert administrators that could be called on to facilitate policy in any given agency of government. Up to 10% of SES administrators could be nonpermanent staff appointed by the President. A consensus of public administration scholars, e.g. Rosen, 1983; McKinney and Howard, 1987; and Ferris, 1989; found that the effect of this act undercut the authority of senior civil service administrators' to fulfill their agencies' mandated roles, promoting partisan politization of government. This was also furthered by changing former bipartisan leadership of the Civil Service Commission to partisan appointment of the head of the Office of Personnel Management.

1. Ferris, Frank D. 1989. Is the Senior Service Viable?. Public Personnel Management 18 (3): 355 2. Rosen, Bernard. 1983. "Effective Continuity of U-S, Government Operations in Jeopardy." Public Administration Review 43 (5):383-392 3. McKinney, Jerome B., and Lawrence C. Howard. 1979. Public administration: balancing power and accountability: Moore Publishing Co.

Needs an actual article page
There should be an actual article on civil service reform. It could have a note at the top about this disambig page, if that is necessary at that point. II | (t - c) 20:42, 4 December 2016 (UTC)