The evolution of the U.S. public service and the concept of merit -- Personnel is power : controlling government by controlling the civil service -- Disabling the Merit Systems Protection Board -- Trump's executive orders on federal labor relations -- The effort to dismantle OPM -- The creation...

As is widely known, the state of Georgia transformed its civil service system in the mid-1990s. A new performance management and pay-for-performance plan was put into place, and authority for personnel policy was significantly decentralized, but perhaps most notably, all employees hired or...

The theory of representative bureaucracy suggests that a demographically diverse public sector workforce (passive representation) will lead to policy outcomes that reflect the interests of all groups represented, including historically disadvantaged communities (active representation). Implicit...

In the past, researchers in the field of public administration have been hindered in their ability to study trends in the representation of women and minorities in state government due to limitations in data availability. This article develops an alternative approach to examining the...