01699pab a2200205 454500008004000000100002300040245007100063260000900134300001500143362001200158520104700170650004201217650003401259650002601293773003301319908000601352909001101358999001901369952010501388180718b2013   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aMcGrath, Robert J.  aThe rise and fall of radical civil service reform in the US states  c2013  ap.638-649.  aJul-Aug  aInitiated by a 1996 Georgia statute, radical civil service reform quickly swept the United States. This article explains the wax and eventual wane of state efforts to increase the number of at-will employees at the expense of the population of fully protected merit system employees. Using an event history approach to explain this policy diffusion with state-level variables, the author shows that electoral competition and gubernatorial powers are the most significant determinants of this kind of policy diffusion. Whereas previous literature concluded that these reforms ceased spreading because the new programs were failing to create the promised governmental efficiency, this article argues that the institution conditions for these human resource management policies have been less propitious in recent years. The article signifies an important contribution in that it brings civil service reform back into the scope of policy diffusion literature and identifies political insights into a perpetually important question. - Reproduced.  aAdministrative reform - United states  aCivil service - United states  aAdministrative reform  aPublic Administration Review  aN  a100628  c100627d100627  00104070aIIPAbIIPAd2018-07-19hVolume no: 73, Issue no: 4pAR101088r2018-07-19w2018-07-19yAR