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Civil Service Reform

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In 1996, the State of Georgia passed the Merit System Reform Act, which made dramatic changes to the traditional civil service system in the state. These reforms included placing all newly hired civil servants in positions that were “at will” and greatly decentralized responsibility for recruitment and classification to individual operating agencies. The role of the central personnel office changed from that of a regulating agency ensuring that merit principles were followed to a consulting service organization designed to encourage best practices. This article examines these changes as manifestations of a “managerialist” ideology more concerned with empowering managers for the sake of greater efficiency than with protecting individual employee rights.

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1993Reinventing government: how the entrepreneurial spirit is transforming the public sector 1917Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association 1993Managerialism and the Public Services: Cuts or Cultural Change in the 1990S?1998Administrative Leadership, Neo-Managerialism, and the Public Management Movement 1999The Paradox of Managerialism 1995The Foundation of Merit 1996Civil Service Reform: Building a Government that Works 1998Reinventing Government, The New Public Management and Civil Service Systems in International Perspective

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