The Foundation of Merit Mark Cieslik Boyd considers this a fool's

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The Foundation of Merit Mark Cieslik Boyd considers this a fool'sThe first systematic examination of the federal civil service in nearly forty years, The Foundation of Merit analyzes the historical development of the civil service in the context of the political and democratic environment that is central to its effectiveness and legitimacy. Patricia Ingraham describes theincremental and disjointed growth of the federal civil service and explains how, and why, it came to be a system with control in the wrong places,