Recent Reforms: Merit, Management, and Politics
- What are the three major themes or aspects of recent civil service reforms?
- Has recent civil service reform been driven more by political ideology or technical personnel management concerns?
- What are two elements of an effective equal employment opportunity policy?
- Why were early efforts to combat historic patterns of discrimination grounded on Presidential Executive Orders? What were the most important of those orders?
- What were the conditions that gave rise to affirmative action in the federal civil service?