Some articles on civil service reform, services, reform, service, civil:
... In 2000, the Belgian federal government commenced a program of civil service reform, called the “Copernicus Plan.” The object of the plan is for ...
... routes were greatly overpaid for their services with the connivance of government officials (including Second Assistant Postal Secretary Thomas J ... by a deranged office seeker amplified the growing public demand for civil service reform ... of reformers by turning against the spoils system and, by 1882, the tide turned in favor of reform ...
... 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 ... Trade Commission), but again he declined federal service ...
... 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) ...
Famous quotes containing the words civil service reform, reform, civil and/or service:
“Both of us felt more anxiety about the South—about the colored people especially—than about anything else sinister in the result. My hope of a sound currency will somehow be realized; civil service reform will be delayed; but the great injury is in the South. There the Amendments will be nullified, disorder will continue, prosperity to both whites and colored people will be pushed off for years.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“Both of us felt more anxiety about the South—about the colored people especially—than about anything else sinister in the result. My hope of a sound currency will somehow be realized; civil service reform will be delayed; but the great injury is in the South. There the Amendments will be nullified, disorder will continue, prosperity to both whites and colored people will be pushed off for years.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Barnard’s greatest war service ... was the continuance of full-scale instruction in the liberal arts ... It was Barnard’s responsibility to keep alive in the minds of young people the great liberal tradition of the past and the study of philosophy, of history, of Greek.”
—Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve (1877–1965)