Concepts and strategies for improving public personnel management emanate from all levels of government and diffuse from one jurisdiction to another. Rarely is the diffusion random. This study identifies the patterns of diffusion among state governments in the periods immediately before and after the passage of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1979 and suggests reasons for those patterns.
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