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Official organ of the Civil Service Reform Association of Maryland. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Merged with: The Civil service record, ISSN 0190-4159, to form: Good government.

Books reviewed:Stephen E. Condrey and Robert Maranto (eds.), Radical Reform of the CivilServiceJames P. Pfiffner and Douglas A. Brook (eds.), The Future of Merit: Twenty Years after the Civil Service Reform ActA.T. Rafiqur Rahman, Reforming the Civil Service for Government Performance: A Partnership Perspective

Reform in the government service. By Walter Allen Smith. pp.[5]-21.--Spoils system: its origin and cure. By Edward Cole Howland. pp.[23]-38. ; Mode of access: Internet.

The federal civil service system is widely regarded as obsolete. The pay of federal employees bears little relation to the market, narrowly defined jobs hamper the assignment of tasks, and byzantine hiring rules impede the procurement of needed skills. The theory of punctuated equilibrium holds that an episode of rapid and dramatic change portends, that the pressures for change will build and that some exogenous event will trigger a reform event similar to what happened in the mid-2000s subsequent to the 9/11 terrorist incident. Does another episode of punctuated equilibrium impend or is change more likely to occur in an incremental manner? Distinctive features of the policy subsystem make evident the improbability of another episode of "grand reform." Recent developments further highlight a dynamic element whereby small-scale adjustments are being employed to address some of the system's most dysfunctional aspects.

Effective governance is one of the key challenges for both developing and developed countries. Governments, today, are increasingly encountering complex and cross-cutting issues such as economic and financial volatility, internal and external conflicts, growing social tensions, adverse demographic trends, climate change vulnerabilities, weak regulatory regimes, huge infrastructure and service delivery gaps, state and elite capturing and sustaining rule of law. Faced with growing criticism of infectiveness of state institutions undermining country's economic, social and political development because of weakening capacity of public officials to pace up with emerging challenges, there is a renewed interest in reforming the governance and reforming the civil service. ; Non-PR ; IFPRI1; Pakistan Agricultural Capacity Enhancement Program (PACE); PSSP; CRP2; 5 Strengthening Institutions and Governance ; DSGD; PIM ; CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)

Introduction -- Civil service scope, structure and context for reforms -- Civil service reform policy and implementation -- Local implementation of civil service reforms -- Control of the bureaucracy and reform outcomes -- Implications for asian developing countries -- Conclusion

In terms of the Sino-Portuguese agreement signed in 1987, Macao will become a Special Administrative Region of mainland China in 1999. Since the signing of the agreement, civil service reform has become the most urgent political issue in Macao. The article looks at the features of Macao's civil service, the factors leading to reform, the content of reform, the aspects neglected by reform, and the difficulties of reforming Macao's bureaucracy. (DÜI-Sen)

An important agency of the government is its civil service or bureaucracy. The civil service has the potential to empower a government to achieve a country's goals, that is, to improve its citizens' standard of living. The ability of a civil service to successfully support the government depends heavily on the characteristics of the civil service. In the case of Indonesia, the civil service is slow; lacks transparency, accountability, and initiative; and is sometimes corrupt. Therefore Indonesia's civil service is badly in need of reform, both in relation to its institutional aspects as well as in relation to moral issues.

In August 1993, Chinese authorities announced that they would implement a new civil service system to manage 5.5 million administrators, managers, and professionals employed by the government. The reforms are part of a comprehensive re-structuring of government institutions and management methods to accomodate China's emerging market economy. The author examines these reforms and points out while the reforms have raised the quality of China's civil service they have yet to make much discernible impact on the efficiency or productivity of the service. (DÜI-Sen)