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A Presidential Civil Service - FDR's Liaison Office for Personnel Management (Paperback)
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A Presidential Civil Service - FDR's Liaison Office for Personnel Management (Paperback)
Series: Public Admin: Criticism and Creativity
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A Presidential Civil Service offers a comprehensive and definitive
study of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Liaison Office for
Personnel Management (LOPM). Established in 1939 following the
release of Roosevelt's Brownlow Committee report, LOPM became a key
milestone in the evolution of the contemporary executive-focused
civil service. Â The Progressive Movement of the nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries comprised groups across the political
spectrum with quite different. All, however, agreed on the need for
a politically autonomous and independent federal Civil Service
Commission (CSC) to eliminate patronage and political favoritism.
In A Presidential Civil Service, public administration scholar
Mordecai Lee explores two models open to later reformers:
continuing a merit-based system isolated from politics or a
management-based system subordinated to the executive and grounded
in the growing field of managerial science. Â Roosevelt's
1937 Brownlow Committee, formally known as the President's
Committee on Administrative Management, has been widely studied
including its recommendation to disband the CSC and replace it with
a presidential personnel director. What has never been documented
in detail was Roosevelt's effort to implement that recommendation
over the objections of Congress by establishing the LOPM as a
nonstatutory agency. Â The role and existence of LOPM from
1939 to 1945 has been largely dismissed in the history of public
administration. Lee's meticulously researched A Presidential Civil
Service, however, persuasively shows that LOPM played a critical
role in overseeing personnel policy. It was involved in every major
HR initiative before and during World War II. Though small, the
agency's deft leadership almost always succeeded at impelling the
CSC to follow its lead. Â Roosevelt's actions were in fact an
artful and creative victory, a move finally vindicated when, in
1978, Congress abolished the CSC and replaced it with an Office of
Personnel Management headed by a presidential appointee. A
Presidential Civil Service offers a fascinating account and vital
reassessment of the enduring legacy of Roosevelt's LOPM.
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