In this revised and expanded reader, Thompson brings 30 classic articles and book chapter reprints together under one cover--giving students a grounding in the history, development, and current status of public personnel policy in the United States. In addition to discussion of hot topics, Thompson includes such important primary source materials as the Pendleton Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1972, the Volcker Commission's Leadership for Governance findings, and key Supreme Court decisions. Enhanced by the editor's extensively revised section introductions, these readings give students a sense of the rich historical legacy of the field while casting light on contemporary issues and policy dilemmas.

Classics of Public Personnel Policy

Education & Teaching

Thompson, Frank J.

Schools & Teaching

Cengage Learning'

Health Policy and the Bureaucracy: Politics and Implementation (American Politics and Public Policy)

Health Policy and the Bureaucracy serves political scientists as well as specialists in health policy and administration. It is first of all a unique, comprehensive analysis of the major federal health programs, tracing their impact from legislation through the various stages of implementation. And second, by exploring a cross section of federal action within a single policy arena, it provides insights into the processes and strategies of implementation itself. The author examines eight major programs representing three categories of federal intervention in the health arena: basic resource policies, medical service policies, and preventive policies. Basic resource policies are aimed primarily at shaping the supply and distribution of medical resources. The specific cases examined are the Hill-Burton program, the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act, the HMO program, and the National Health Service Corps. Medical service policies more explicitly involve the federal government in furnishing health services to various segments of the population. The book examines in considerable depth the successes and failures of Medicare, Medicaid, and the Veterans Administration medical network. Preventive policies seek to forestall injury, disease, and death by reducing health hazards in the environment (including the workplace) and by encouraging the modification of personal life-styles on a national scale. The much-opposed struggle to implement the Occupational Safety and Health Act receives primary consideration in the book's discussion of this sector of health policy. The focus is on the politics of implementation with respect to each policy. In particular, the book examines the varying abilities of the eight programs to avoid certain basic pitfalls. In each case, the founding statute is analyzed, followed by a discussion of the characteristics of the implementing agency, the supportiveness of the external political milieu, and the behavior of oversight actors, especially in their capacity as program fixers. The book stresses the role of statutes in rigging the implementation game; it raises a number of serious questions about the ability of oversight institutions to correct the problems that afflict health programs. Contents: Health as a Political Problem; Health Care Institutions: From Expansion to the Quest for Economy and Efficiency; Man-power Policy and Shortage Areas: The National Health Service Corps Evolves; Medicaid: A Commercial Market Strategy for the Poor; Medicare: The Perils of Payment with a Commercial Market Strategy; When Government Delivers Care: The Evolution of the VA Medical Programs; Preventive Health Policies: The Struggles of OSHA; Policy and Its Implementation: Clues from the Health Arena; Notes; Index.

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

The MIT Press

Thompson has managed to bring a fresh, global perspective that is sure to give specialists a new vision of old problems and novices a thoroughly understandable, readable, and sophisticated introduction to the field....

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

MIT Press]

Personnel policy in the city: The politics of jobs in Oakland (Oakland Project series)

University of California Press

Personnel Policy in the City: The Politics of Jobs in Oakland

Sociology

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.

Wadsworth Pub. Co.

Public Administration: Challenges, Choices, Consequences

Levine, Charles H.

Peters, B.Guy

Business & Money

Scott, Foresman Co.

<div> How Trump has used the federal government to promote conservative policies The presidency of Donald Trump has been unique in many respects--most obviously his flamboyant personal style and disregard for conventional niceties and factual information. But one area hasn't received as much attention as it deserves: Trump's use of the "administrative presidency," including executive orders and regulatory changes, to reverse the policies of his predecessor and advance positions that lack widespread support in Congress. This book analyzes the dynamics and unique qualities of Trump's administrative presidency in the important policy areas of health care, education, and climate change. In each of these spheres, the arrival of the Trump administration represented a hostile takeover in which White House policy goals departed sharply from the more "liberal" ideologies and objectives of key agencies, which had been embraced by the Obama administration. Three expert authors show how Trump has continued, and even expanded, the rise of executive branch power since the Reagan years. The authors intertwine this focus with an in-depth examination of how the Trump administration's hostile takeover has drastically changed key federal policies--and reshaped who gets what from government--in the areas of health care, education, and climate change. Readers interested in the institutions of American democracy and the nation's progress (or lack thereof) in dealing with pressing policy problems will find deep insights in this book. Of particular interest is the book's examination of how the Trump administration's actions have long-term implications for American democracy. </div>

Trump, the Administrative Presidency, and Federalism

Rabe, Barry G.

Wong, Kenneth K.

Brookings Institution Press

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