American Public Service: Radical Reform and the Merit System provides a collection of papers that examine the innovations, strategies, and issues found in the contemporary civil service reform debate. Offering diverse perspectives from expert contributors, this book presents reforms from across the country and interprets data. It addresses the question of whether the relaxation of civil service protections against partisan intrusion will result in corruption. It includes examples of ongoing change and explores controversies over civil service that have implications in reform. Representing the state-of-the-art, this text also identifies issues and makes suggestions for the future.

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