Legislating Bureaucratic Change: Civil Service Reform Act of 1978

Patricia W. Ingraham · Carolyn Ban

Juni 1985 · State University of New York Press

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Legislating Bureaucratic Change is an in-depth analysis of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978. This legislation, hailed by many as the major domestic achievement of the Carter presidency, was a far-reaching attempt to change and control the massive federal bureaucracy. Not since the passage of the Pendleton Act in 1883 had so major a reform been attempted.

Legislating Bureaucratic Change reveals this process of change and reform. As a collection, its chapters advance our understanding of the dimensions and problems of bureaucratic change. In a larger sense, by focusing on civil service reform as public policy, the book also provides valuable insights into the ability of American policy institutions to address critical public problems.

Autoren-Profil

Patricia W. Ingraham holds a Ph.D. in Policy Sciences from the State University of New York at Binghamton. Carolyn Ban is Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the State University of New York at Albany.