Public Personnel Examinations and the Constitution

Despite almost a century of effort to depoliticize public service in the United States, public personnel administration remains deeply entangled in the thicket. Today the major challenge to public personnel administration comes not from spoilsmen, political parties, or frustrated political executives, but rather from decisions of the federal judiciary. Indeed, in a series of cases receiving little national attention during the past few years, the lower and intermediate federal courts have required major changes at the center of contemporary public personnel administration and have placed it on the threshold of a new era in which new values and techniques will have to be employed

Constitution · Political science · Law · Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems · Law, Rights, and Freedoms · Legal and Constitutional Studies · Public Administration

• Merit Principles Merit Further Investigation

  Sanghee Park, So Hee Jeon•International Journal of Public…•2022

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• The Civil Service Commission's Decision To Authorize the Use of Goals and Timetables in the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Program

  Open Access•David H Rosenbloom•The Western Political Quarterly•1973

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