Rethinking Civil Service Management with James-Christian Blockwood

Adam White and Jace Lington talk with James-Christian Blockwood about his recent Government Executive article on civil service reform. They discuss current proposals to make more civil servants removable at will as well as ways to build a nonpartisan, professional federal workforce that protects the interests of the American people.

Show Notes:

• Let's Rethink the Management of our Civil Service, GovExec, April 28, 2023
• Partnership for Public Service, Website
• "You Report to Me” Gray Matters Podcast with David Bernhardt, May 10, 2023
• “Do Public Sector Unions Make Government Unaccountable?” Gray Matters Podcast with Philip K. Howard, January 24, 2023
• From Merit to Expertise and Back: The Evolution of the U.S. Civil Service System, Joseph Postell, Gray Center Working Paper, February 6, 2020
• Restoring Accountability to the Executive Branch, Philip K. Howard, Gray Center Working Paper, February 6, 2020
• Quick Actions to Improve Recruitment, Hiring, and Accountability in the Federal Workforce, Jeffrey Salmon, Gray Center Policy Brief, March 2021

• Civil Service: Pulling In or Pushing Away, Sally Katzen, Gray Center Policy Brief, August 2020
• Jimmy Carter and Civil Service Reform, Stuart E. Eizenstat, Gray Center Working Paper, May 22, 2019

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