Pendleton Civil Service Act

Bibliography

Articles

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Books

• Halloran, Matthew F. The Romance of the Merit System: Forty-Five Years' Reminiscences of the Civil Service. Washington, DC: Juddy & Detweiler, 1929.
• Harvey, Donald R. The Civil Service Commission. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970.
• Hollander, Herbert S. Spoils! Washington, DC: William Ullman, 1936.
• Hoogenboom, Ari. Outlawing the Spoils: A History of the Civil Service Reform Movement, 1865–1883. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1961.
• Hoogenboom, Ari, ed. Spoilsmen and Reformers. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1964.
• Huddleston, Mark W., and William W. Boyer. The Higher Civil Service in the United States: Quest for Reform. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996.
• Ingraham, Patricia Wallace. The Foundation of Merit: Public Service in American Democracy. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
• Johnson, Ronald N., and Gary D. Libecap. The Federal Civil Service System and the Problem of Bureaucracy: The Economics and Politics of Institutional Change. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
• Lingley, Charles Ramsdell. Since the Civil War. Revised edition. New York: Century Company, 1926.
• Prince, Carl E. The Federalists and the Origins of the U.S. Civil Service. New York: New York University Press, 1977.
• Rosenbloom, David H., ed. Centenary Issues of the Pendleton Act of 1883: The Problematic Legacy of Civil Service Reform. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1982.
• Sageser, Adelbert Bower. The First Two Decades of the Pendleton Act: A Study of Civil Service Reform. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1935.
• Stewart, Frank Mann. The National Civil Service Reform League: History, Activities, and Problems. Austin: University of Texas, 1929.
• Titlow, Richard E. Americans Import Merit: Origins of the United States Civil Service and the Influence of the British Model. Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1979.
• United States Civil Service Commission. History of the Federal Civil Service, 1789 to the Present. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1941.
• Van Riper, Paul P. History of the United States Civil Service. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1976.