The first systematic examination of the federal civil service in
nearly forty years, "The Foundation of Merit" analyzes the
historical development of the civil service in the context of the
political and democratic environment that is central to its
effectiveness and legitimacy. Patricia Ingraham describes
theincremental and disjointed growth of the federal civil service
and explains how, and why, it came to be a system with control in
the wrong places, with discretion in the wrong places, and why--in
its current form--it has little hope of meeting the enormous
challenges of the next century.
The book concludes with an examination of the need for reform,
the challenges that have shaped that need, and the lessons from the
past that should guide the reforms of the future.
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