Some articles on civil service reform, service, civil, services, reform:
... In 2000, the Belgian federal government commenced a program of civil service reform, called the “Copernicus Plan.” The object of the plan is for citizens to no longer ...
... Civil Service Reform Building a Government That Works with Donald Kettl, Ronald Sanders, and Constance Horner (Washington, DC The Brookings Institution, 1996) ... New Paradigms for Government Issues for the Changing Public Service co-edited with Barbara Romzek (San Francisco Jossey-Bass, 1994) ... The Promise and Paradox of Civil Service Reform co-edited with David Rosenbloom (Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992) ...
... several presidents, and had a lengthy career in federal service ... on Economy and Efficiency, a body established under the authority of the Civil Appropriations Act of 1910 to study the administration of the executive branch, but Merriam declined ... (now the United States International Trade Commission), but again he declined federal service ...
... for star postal routes were greatly overpaid for their services with the connivance of government officials (including Second Assistant Postal Secretary Thomas J ... office seeker amplified the growing public demand for civil service reform ... the spoils system and, by 1882, the tide turned in favor of reform ...
Famous quotes containing the words civil service, reform, civil and/or service:
“Now for civil service reform. Legislation must be prepared and executive rules and maxims. We must limit and narrow the area of patronage. We must diminish the evils of office-seeking. We must stop interference of federal officers with elections. We must be relieved of congressional dictation as to appointments.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
“Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer;
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike;
Alike reserved to blame, or to commend,
A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend;
Dreading e’en fools, by flatterers besieged,
And so obliging, that he ne’er obliged;
Like Cato, give his little senate laws,
And sit attentive to his own applause:”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
“In the early forties and fifties almost everybody “had about enough to live on,” and young ladies dressed well on a hundred dollars a year. The daughters of the richest man in Boston were dressed with scrupulous plainness, and the wife and mother owned one brocade, which did service for several years. Display was considered vulgar. Now, alas! only Queen Victoria dares to go shabby.”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)