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100			_aMaranto Robert
245			_aNeutrality: an enduring principle of the federal service
362			_a22(3), Sep 1992, p.173-87
520			_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
650			_a Public Administration -- U.S.A.
650			_aCivil Service -- U.S.A.
700			_aSkelly B. Douglas
773			_aAmerican Review of Public Administration
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