Legislating Bureaucratic Change: The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978

Patricia W. Ingraham, Carolyn Ban

State University of New York Press, Jan 1, 1984 - Law - 406 pages

Legislating Bureaucratic Change is an in-depth analysis of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978. This legislation, hailed by many as the major domestic achievement of the Carter presidency, was a far-reaching attempt to change and control the massive federal bureaucracy. Not since the passage of the Pendleton Act in 1883 had so major a reform been attempted.

Legislating Bureaucratic Change reveals this process of change and reform. As a collection, its chapters advance our understanding of the dimensions and problems of bureaucratic change. In a larger sense, by focusing on civil service reform as public policy, the book also provides valuable insights into the ability of American policy institutions to address critical public problems.

About the author

Patricia W. Ingraham holds a Ph.D. in Policy Sciences from the State University of New York at Binghamton.

Carolyn Ban is Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the State University of New York at Albany.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Legislating Bureaucratic Change: The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978; SUNY series in public administration; SUNY series in public administration
• Editors: Patricia W. Ingraham, Carolyn Ban
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1984
• ISBN: 0873958861, 9780873958868
• Length: 406 pages
• Subjects: Law / Civil Procedure; Law / Constitutional; Political Science / Public Policy / General