A Presidential Civil Service: FDR's Liaison Office for Personnel Management
- ISBN-10
- 0817318992
- ISBN-13
- 9780817318994
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 238
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-05-30
- Publisher
- University of Alabama Press
- Author
- Mordecai Lee
Description
A Presidential Civil Service is a masterful account of the founding of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Liaison Office for Personnel Management (LOPM), and his use of LOPM to demonstrate the efficacy of a management-oriented federal civil service over a purely merit-based Civil Service Commission.
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