01137pab a2200133 454500008003600000100001900036245006100055362003000116520072500146650003700871650002800908700002200936773004500958180718b   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aMaranto Robert  aNeutrality: an enduring principle of the federal service  a22(3), Sep 1992, p.173-87  aAlthough many proponents of civil service reform question the principles of classical American public administration and specially reject its neutral competence model of federal service, the principle of neutrality continues to be an important belief of federal career execultives. This finding is based on an analysis of responses to a survey of 1,045 high leve (SES and GM-15) Carerrist and 242 political appointees federal from 15 federal organizations undertaken in November and December of 1987. As expected, Regan political appointees profess slighty more support for the neturality principle that their career subordinates. Still, careerist support for the principle is high and relatively uniform across organiza  a Public Administration -- U.S.A.  aCivil Service -- U.S.A.  aSkelly B. Douglas  aAmerican Review of Public Administration