本书为“公共管理学经典教材原版影印丛书”之一，收录了30篇公共部门人事政策方面的经典文献，呈现了美国公共部门人事政策的历史、发展和当前的状况。内容包括：公共部门人事政策的历史形成、考绩制改革、高层领导力、平等就业机会与代表性官僚制等。本书为英文影印版。

本书收录了30篇公共部门人事政策方面的经典文献，呈现了美国公共部门人事政策的历史、发展和当前的状况。内容涉及公共部门人事政策的历史形成、考绩制改革、高层领导力、平等就业机会与代表性官僚制、员工权利和劳工关系、变革的前景等重要问题。本书对公共部门人事政策的研究和改革实践都有重要的参考和借鉴价值。

PREFACE ix

PART I

Beginnings: Politics and Public Personnel

Policy 1

1 Americanizing a Foreign Invention: The Pendleton Act of 1883 11

Paul P. Van Riper

2 The Pendleton Act 26

U.S. Congress

3 Merit Systems and Politics 31

Frank J. Goodnow

4 Merit, Morality, and Democracy 34

Frederick C. Mosher

PART II

Merit Systems: Triumph, Discontent,

and the Shadow 47

5 The Silent Revolution in Patronage 63

Frank J. Sorauf

6 Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois 72

U.S. Supreme Court

7 The Civil Service: A Meritless System?  87

E. S. Savas and Sigmund G. Ginsburg

8 Position Classification: A Behavioral Analysis for the Public

Service 100

Jay M. Shafritz

9 Merit Pay in the Public Sector: The Case for a Failure of Theory 121

James L. Perry

10 The Personnel Office: Friend or Foe? 135

Carolyn Ban

11 The Illusion of Smallness 157

Paul C. Light

12 The Supreme Court and Private Contractors: Extraas from

O'Hare Truck Service v. City of Northlake and Board of County

Commrs. v. Umbehr 178

U.S. Supreme Court

PART III

Merit Systems and Executive

Leadership 187

13 The Idea of a Civil Service: A Third Force? 199

Hugh Heclo

14 The Malek Manual 212

White House Personnel Office

15 Testimony on Civil Service Reform and Organization 227

Alan K. Campbell

16 Leadership for Governance 242

The Volcker Commission

17 The Governor as Leader: Strengthening Public Service Through Executive

Leadership 247

Deborah D. Roberts

PART IV

Equal Employment Opportunity

and Representation 269

18 The Negro and the Federal Service in an Era of Change 281

Samuel Krislov

19 Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, As Amended 302

U.S. Congress (1972)

20 Griggs, et al. v. Duke Power Co. 320

U.S. Supreme Court

21 Through the Glass Ceiling: Prospects for the Advancement of Women

in the Federal Civil Service 328

Katherine C. Naff

22 Cultural Diversity Programs to Prepare for Work Force 2000: What's

Gone Wrong? 346

Norma M. Riccucci

PART V

Employee Rights and Labor Relations 353

23 Public Personnel Administration and the Constitution: An Emergent

Approach 367

David H. Rosenbloom

24 Strikes in the Public Service 380

Leonard D. White

25 The Limits of Collective Bargaining in Public Employment 392

Harry H. Wellington and Ralph K. Winter, Jr.

26 The Impacts of Collective Bargaining on Local Government Services:

A Review of Research 412

David T. Methe and James L. Perry

27 Working Together for Public Service 432

U.S. Department of Labor

PART VI

Toward Reinvention 463

28 Hard Truths/Tough Choices: An Agenda for State and Local

Reform 479

National Commission on the State and Local Public Service

(The Winter Commission)

29 From Red Tape to Results: Creating a Government That Works Better

and Costs Less 497

National Performance Review

30 People and Performance: Challenges for the Future Public Service--

the Report from the Wye River Conference 521

Patricia W. Ingraham, Sally C. Selden, and Donald P. Moynihan