A Presidential Civil Service - Fdr's Liaison Office for Personnel Management

A masterful account of the founding of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Liaison Office for Personnel Management (LOPM), and his use of LOPM to demonstrate the efficacy of a management-oriented federal civil service over a purely merit-based Civil Service Commission

About the author

Mordecai Lee is a professor of urban planning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the author of Bureaus of Efficiency: Reforming Local Government in the Progressive Era; Institutionalizing Congress and the Presidency: The U.S. Bureau of Efficiency, 1916-1933; and The First Presidential Communications Agency: FDR's Office of Government Reports. Lee has also served as an elected member of the Wisconsin State Legislature Assembly and Senate.

Summary

Offers a comprehensive and definitive study of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Liaison Office for Personnel Management (LOPM). Established in 1939 following the release of Roosevelt's Brownlow Committee report, LOPM became a key milestone in the evolution of the contemporary executive-focused civil service.

Product details

• Authors: Mordecai Lee
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9780817360238
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-6023-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 226 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 363 g
• Series: Public Admin: Criticism and Cr; Public Administration: Critici; Public Admin: Criticism and Creativity
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education