Diversity And Affirmative Action In Public Service

In Diversity and Affirmative Action in Public Service , Walter Broadnax brings together much of the most influential research and thought in public administration literature regarding diversity and affirmative action. Equal employment opportunity, gender discrimination, creating a representative bureaucracy, age discrimination, and disabilities are examined in detail by drawing on the best work in the Public Administration Review, and by providing useful perspectives regarding that work over time. Diversity and affirmative action are subjects that tend to elicit some form of emotion, either strongly supportive or strongly opposed. In Diversity and Affirmative Action in Public Service , Walter Broadnax has drawn together a collection of essays that provides the reader with a historical overview of the evolution of these concepts within a public service context. The book opens with a discussion of representative bureaucracy and, using that material as a backdrop, proceeds to provide highly useful snapshots of the evolution of these concepts over the last several decades. The reader will be able to see clearly how the debate regarding this important topic has changed and matured over the last thirty years.The introduction and the individual chapter introductions bring together the perspectives of the practitioner and the academician. Many of the selected pieces have strong practical applications, and a substantial number of them were written by practitioners themselves.

Table of Contents:
Representative Bureaucracy and Equal Employment Opportunity; Public Administration and Social Equity,; H. George Frederickson; Social Equity and the Public Service,; Eugene B. McGregor; Measuring Bureaucratic Representation and Integration,; David Nachmias and David H. Rosenbloom; Progress Toward Racial and Sexual Equality in the Federal Civil Service?; Gregory B. Lewis; From Civil Rights to Valuing Differences,; Walter D. Broadnax; Equal Employment Opportunity and the Early Career in Federal Employment,; Gregory B. Lewis; Racial Unrest in the Military: The Challenge and the Response,; Richard Stillman II; Affirmative Action; The U.S. Supreme Courts Consensus on Affirmative Action,; John Nalbandian; Affirmative Action and City Managers: Attitudes Toward Recruitment of Women,; James Slack; Mini-Symposium: Affirmative Action in Public Employment,; edited by Lloyd G. Nigro; Diversity; 1Race, Sex and Supervisory Authority in Federal White-Collar Employment, Gregory B. Lewis; 1Asian Americans in the Public Service: Success, Diversity and Discrimination, Pan Suk Kim and Gregory B. Lewis; Symposium: Minorities in Public Administration,; edited by Adam W. Herbert; Gender; 1Circumventing the Glass Ceiling: Women Executives in American State Governments,; Angela M. Bullard and Deil S. Wright; 1Achieving Credibility: An Analysis of Womens Experience,; A. Carol Rusaw; 1Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Backward: The Status of Womens Integration into Public Management,; Mary E. Guy; Symposium: Women in Public Administration,; edited by Nesta M. Gallas; Aging and Disabilities; 1Greying at the Temples: Demographics of a Public Service Occupation, James F. Wolf, Carole M. Neves, Richard T. Greenough, Bill B. Benton; 1The Impact of Disabilities on Federal Career Success, Gregory B. Lewis and Cheryl Lynn Allee; Mini-Symposium on New Roles for Older Workers: The Neglected Option,; edited by Jarold A. Keiffer.

About the Author :
Walter D. Broadnax is Dean of the School of Public Affairs at American University in Washington, D.C. Prior to this appointment he was Professor of Public Policy and Management in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland, where he also directed the Bureau of Governmental Research.