The Pendleton Act—A Centennial Eulogy

1 2 vols. (1 vol. ed.; 2 vols. in 1), (New York: Macmillan, 1940), vol. 2, p. 341.

² The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 took 116 pages.

3 See my History of the United States Civil Service (Evanston, Ill.: Row, Peterson and Co., 1958), ch. V, for a summary. See p. 11 for a citation pertaining to this Atlantic interchange.

⁴ All amendments to the Act were made in the Senate. The House did not even debate the matter and accepted the Senate's version.

⁵ Classless in the sense of European classes and European sensitivity to the permanence of class position and boundaries.

6 Van Riper , "The Tap Roots of American Public Personnel Management," Personnel Administration 25 (March-April 1962): 14.

7 There have been a good many articles and papers around this point, which was perhaps first made by Norton Long in a notable article on "Bureaucracy and Constitutionalism," American Political Science Review 48 (September 1952): 651-659.