scholarly journals Civil Service Rules and Policy Choices: Evidence from US State Governments

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gergely Ujhelyi
Keyword(s):  
Civil Service ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Policy Choices

scholarly journals Civil Service Rules and Policy Choices: Evidence from US State Governments

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 338-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gergely Ujhelyi
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
State Level ◽  
Policy Impact ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Policy Choices ◽  
Political Patronage

This paper studies the policy impact of civil service regulations, exploiting reforms undertaken by US state governments throughout the twentieth century. These reforms replaced political patronage with a civil service recruited based on merit and protected from politics. I find that state politicians respond to these changes by spending relatively less through the reformed state-level bureaucracies. Instead, they allocate more funds to lower level governments. The reallocation of expenditures leads to reduced long-term investment by state governments. (JEL D73, H72, H77, H79)

A New Breed of Public Executive: Top Level Exempt Managers in State Government

1988 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah D. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Top Management ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Senior Executive ◽  
Political Appointees ◽  
Management Contract ◽  
At Will

The author surveyed how top management posts are filled in the 50 state governments. Below their direct patronage powers, governors and their political appointees have increasing influence over a netherworld of policy-involved exempt, unclassified, noncompetitive, management contract, senior executive services, and “at will employment” personnel classes. These “exempt managers” serve as a buffer between the top political appointees and the traditional protected civil service, and they are increasingly more career and merit oriented. Firings are rare due to the need for competence and continuity and the legal ambiguities of these employees' rights, but their ambiguous roles need more professional definition.

scholarly journals Factors Influencing Human Resource Professionals` Perceptions of the Effectiveness of Civil Service Reform in Six U.S. State Governments

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-91
Author(s):  
Kim Jung In
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Pay For Performance ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Human Resource Professionals ◽  
Civil Service Reform ◽  
Managerial Competencies ◽  
Assessment Survey ◽  
At Will

Civil service reform has been carried out to achieve ideological, political, and technical changes in various countries. Most research about civil service reform has attempted to find factors that influence the extent and intensity of reform elements such as at-will employment, pay for performance, and broadbanding. No prior study has systematically examined factors that affect human resource professionals` perceptions of the effectiveness of civil service reforms. This study focused on that issue, using 2010 Civil Service Reform Assessment survey data from six U.S. state governments to examine the relationships between factors associated with human resources professionals` managerial competencies and demographic characteristics and their perceptions of the effectiveness of civil service reforms with regard to both goal achievement and process. Among its findings was that human resources professionals` competency in consultation on civil service reform with officials in other states was likely to be positively associated with their perceptions of the effectiveness of civil service reforms.

scholarly journals SKILLING INDIA: NO TIME TO LOSE

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Suryakant Ratan Chaugule
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
National Council ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
Policy Choices ◽  
The Media ◽  
Set Up

The National Council of Applied Economic Research is India's oldest and largest independent economic think-tank, set up in 1956 to inform policy choices for both governments and industry. For more than six decades, NCAER has served the nation with its rich offering of applied policy research, unique data sets, evaluations and policy inputs to central and state governments, corporate India, the media and informed citizens. It is one of a few think-tanks world-wide that combine rigorous analysis and policy outreach with deep data collection capabilities, especially for large-scale household surveys.

European Union Civil Service Law

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kieran Bradley
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Member State ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Family Law ◽  
State Governments ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Title X ◽  
National Courts ◽  
The One

The civil service law of the European Union governs the legal relationships between Union institutions and agencies, on the one hand, and their staff and a number of categories of persons who may have rights under the EU Staff Regulations or equivalent instruments, on the other hand. These latter include in particular former staff in receipt of pensions or other benefits, family members of (former) staff who have a claim on the Union as a result of their links with the staff member, and candidates for competitions and contractual posts. It is EU law in a relatively pure form, in that neither national law nor the Member State authorities (administrative or political) play any significant part in its application, except Member State governments in their role as Union legislators within the Council, and occasionally national courts called upon to apply EU staff law in national disputes, for example in tax or family law matters. Despite its material content, European Union civil service law is also relatively impervious to the influence of EU social protection law adopted in favour of workers generally under Title X of Part Three TFEU (Social policy), subject to a small number of exceptions, such as minimum

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