The Spoils System Still Threatens the Civil Service
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The future of public service work is unclear. Just in the last few years, the COVID-19 pandemic has upended in-office work, the way people meet and communicate. But, the merit system and its reinforcement of expertise in government work is \\u2013 and will remain \\u2013 key.\\xa0
Daniel Chenok is the executive director of the IBM Center for the Business of Government and Donald F. Kettl is professor emeritus and former dean of the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. Both are fellows of the National Academy of Public Administration. They\\u2019re also authors of\\xa0\\u201cThe Federal Workplace Is Changing Rapidly, But Merit Principles Must Remain Untouched,\\u201d the latest in a series looking at the challenges and urgency of modernizing the civil service.
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