Twenty Years after the Civil Service Reform Act

Wednesday, November 18,1998

9:00 - 9:15 am Welcome and Introductory Remarks

9:15 - 10:30 am Session Number 1: Moderated by Douglas A. Brook, Patricia Ingraham and Donald Moynihan
"Evolving Dimensions of Reform from CSRA Onward"

Hal. G. Rainey and Ed Kellough "Civil Service Reform and Incentives in the Public Service"

10:45 - noon Session Number 2: Moderated by Mark Abramson

Carolyn Ban, "The National Performance Review as Implicit Evaluation of CSRA:Building on or Overturning the Legacy?"

Barbara Romzek "Accountability Implications of Civil Service Reform"

Noon - 1:00 pm Lunch sponsored by EDS

1:00 - 2:00 pm Panel Discussion: John Sepulveda, OPM and Susanne Marshall, MSPB, Representatives of FLRA

2:00 - 3:15 pm Session No. 3: Moderated by Thomas Hennessey

Joel Aberbach and Bert Rockman "Senior Executives in a Changing Political Environment"

Gary S. Marshall, "Office of Personnel Management after 20 Years"

3:30 - 4:40 pm Session No. 4: Moderated by Hugh Heclo

Chester Newland, "Politics of Transition from Administrative to Facilitative State"

Mark Huddleston, "Onto the Darkling Plain: Globalization and the American Public Service in the Twenty-First Century"

4:40 - 5:00 pm Closing Remarks by Hugh Heclo

5:00-6:30 pm Reception sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers

OPM Directors And Agency Repesentatives

DOUGLAS A. BROOK is Vice President - Government Affairs for LTV Corporation. He was Acting Director of OPM in 1992. He also served as Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management). He holds B. A. and M.P.A. degrees from the University of Michigan and is a doctoral student in public policy at George Mason University.

DONALD J. DEVINE is a Washington Times columnist, adjunct scholar at the Heritage Foundation, and a policy consultant to Steve Forbes’ Americans for Hope Growth and Opportunity. He was OPM Director from 1981 to 1989. He is a former professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland.

CONSTANCE HORNER is Guest Scholar in Governmental Studies at the Brookings Institution. She was OPM Director from 1985 to 1989. She has also been Deputy Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Service, and Assistant to the President and Director of Presidential Personnel. She was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago.

JAMES B. KING is Presidential Fellow at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He was OPM Director from 1993 to 1996. He is a former chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, director of the Massachusetts Bay Authority and Special Assistant for Presidential Personnel. He is a graduate of the Harvard School of Business Administration’s program for senior government managers and is a fellow of Harvard’s Institute of Politics.

SUSANNE T. MARSHALL is a Member of the Merit Systems Protection Board. Prior to joining the MSPB, she served for twelve years in various staff positions on Capitol Hill, including Deputy Staff Director of the Senate Committee on Government Affairs, having jurisdiction over all federal civil service laws. She holds an A.B. degree from Smith College, an M.A from Indiana University and a J.D. degree from George Mason University.

CONSTANCE BERRY NEWMAN is Under Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and is Vice Chair of the District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority (the "D.C. Financial Control Board"). She was Director of OPM from 1989 to 1992. She has been an Assistant Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Director of VISTA and a career civil servant. She holds an A.B. degree from Bates College and a M.S. in Law from the University of Minnesota Law School.

JULE M. SUGARMAN is Chairman of the Center on Effective Services for Children, founded in 1991 to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of children’s services. He was the first Deputy Director of OPM and also served as Acting Director. He has served as New York City’s Human Resource Administrator, Atlanta’s Chief Administrative Officer and Vice Chairman of the U. S. Civil Service Commission. He holds a B. A. degree with high distinction from American University.

JOHN U. SEPULVEDA is currently the Deputy Director OPM. His government service includes positions in health care policy and housing policy at the Department of Housing and Urban Development and in health care for the State of Connecticut. He holds a B.A. degree from Hunter College, and MA. and M.PHIL. degrees from Yale University.

Scholarly papers by:

Joel Aberbach, UCLA, and Ben Rockman, University of Pittsburgh

Carolyn Ban, University of Pittsburgh

Hugh Heclo, George Mason University

Mark Huddleston, University of Delaware

Patricia Ingraham and Donald Moynihan, Maxwell School, Syracuse University

Gary S. Marshall, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Chester Newland, University of Southern California

Hal Rainey and Ed Kellough, University of Georgia

Barbara Romzek, University of Kansas

Organizers:

DOUGLAS A. BROOK, George Mason University

J. THOMAS HENNESSEY, JR, The Congressional Institute for the Future, Executive Director, The Congressional Institute for the Future and Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration, George Mason University

MICHAEL LACEY, The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

JAMES P. PFIFFNER, George Mason University, Professor of Public Policy and Government, George Mason University

For more information: mailto:thennessess@gmu.edu

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