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Civil service reform

Bureaucrats 2, Presidents 0

by Leonard Reed,

Now that Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan have reformed it, the government is more of a mess that ever

Christmas list

by John Fischer,

How to get better public servants

by W. Averell (William Averell) Harriman,

So they’re re-doing the post office

by Charles Lester Walker,

Let’s go back to the spoils system

by John Fischer,

Can our diplomatic service be made more efficient?

by David Jayne Hill,

A cure for civic myopia

by Robert W. (Robert Walter) Bruère,

The civil service and colonization

by Francis Newton Thorpe,

Some questions of the day

by Seth Low,

Editor’s easy chair

by Harper’s Staff,

A postmaster’s experience of civil service reform

by Harper’s Staff,

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