Diversity and Affirmative Action in Public Service

by Broadnax, Walter D.

• ISBN13: 9780813366913
• ISBN10: 0813366917
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Westview Pr

Summary

Diversity and affirmative action are subjects that tend to elicit some form of emotion, either strongly supportive or strongly opposed. InDiversity 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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xi
Introduction	xv
Part 1 Representative Bureaucracy and Equal Employment Opportunity	1	(106)
Public Administration and Social Equity	5	(18)
H. George Frederickson
Social Equity and the Public Service	23	(16)
Eugene B. McGregor Jr.
Measuring Bureaucratic Representation and Integration	39	(12)
David Nachmias
David H. Rosenbloom
Progress Toward Racial and Sexual Equality in the Federal Civil Service?	51	(14)
Gregory B. Lewis
From Civil Rights to Valuing Differences	65	(10)
Walter D. Broadnax
Equal Employment Opportunity and the Early Career in Federal Employment	75	(18)
Gregory B. Lewis
Racial Unrest in the Military: The Challenge and the Response	93	(14)
Richard Stillman II
Part 2 Affirmative Action	107	(56)
The U.S. Supreme Court's ``Consensus'' on Affirmative Action	111	(16)
John Naibandian
Affirmative Action and City Managers: Attitudes Toward Recruitment of Women	127	(14)
James D. Slack
A Mini-Symposium: Affirmative Action in Public Employment	141	(2)
Lloyd G. Nigro
Three Key Issues in Affirmative Action	143	(4)
Catherine Lowell
Affirmative Action Produces Equal Employment Opportunity for All	147	(3)
Bernard Rosen
Beyond the Sound and the Fury of Quotas and Targets	150	(4)
Charles H. Levine
Affirmative Action in the Public Sector: Where Do We Stand Today?	154	(2)
William F. Danielson
Civil Rights in the Civil Service-The Winds of Change	156	(4)
Jean J. Couturier
Some Concluding Observations	160	(3)
Lloyd G. Nigro
Part 3 Diversity	163	(98)
Race, Sex, and Supervisory Authority in Federal White-Collar Employment	167	(12)
Gregory B. Lewis
Asian Americans in the Public Service: Success, Diversity, and Discrimination	179	(14)
Pan Suk Kim
Gregory B. Lewis
A Symposium: Minorities in Public Administration	193	(2)
Adam W. Herbert
The Black Perspective on Public Management	195	(7)
Deryl G. Hunt
Black Elected Administratiors: The Trials of Office	202	(11)
William E. Nelson Jr.
Winston Van Horne
The Chicano Experience with Nativism in Public Administration	213	(8)
Maria Dolores Diaz de Krofcheck
Carlos Jackson
The Role of Black Colleges in Public Affairs Education	221	(16)
Cheryl Dobbins
Dollie R. Walker
Conference on Minority Public Administrators	237	(6)
Rose M. Robinson
The Minority Administrator: Problems, Prospects, and Challenges	243	(18)
Adam W. Herbert
Part 4 Gender	261	(136)
Circumventing the Glass Ceiling: Women Executives in American State Governments	265	(30)
Angela M. Bullard
Deil S. Wright
Achieving Credibility: An Analysis of Women's Experience	295	(16)
A. Carol Rusaw
Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Backward: The Status of Women's Integration into Public Management	311	(16)
Mary E. Guy
A Symposium: Women in Public Administration	327	(4)
Nesta M. Gallas
The Women's Movement in ASPA	331	(9)
Joan Fiss Bishop
Women at the Top: Selected Profiles	340	(4)
Andrea Stoloff
Women in Top Jobs: An Opportunity for Federal Leadership	344	(9)
Debra W. Stewart
The Status of Women in the United States, 1976: Still Looking for Justice and Equity	353	(7)
Mary M. Lepper
Establishing Affirmative Action Goals for Women	360	(8)
Peggy Newgarden
New Roles for Professional Women: Skills for Change	368	(6)
Nancy R. Hooyman
Judith S. Kaplan
The Coming Death of Administrative Man	374	(8)
Robert B. Denhardt
Jan Perkins
A Case Study on the Impact of Public Policy Affecting Women	382	(15)
Jennifer Dorn Oldfield
Part 5 Aging and Disabilities	397	(70)
Greying at the Temples: Demographics of a Public Service Occupation	401	(14)
James F. Wolf
Carole M. Neves
Richard T. Greenough
Bill B. Benton
The Impact of Disabilities on Federal Career Success	415	(18)
Gregory B. Lewis
Cheryl Lynn Allee
Mini-Symposium on New Roles for Older Workers: The Neglected Option	433	(2)
Jarold A. Keiffer
Longer Worklives: A Strategic Policy Reversal Needed	435	(8)
Jarold A. Keiffer
Creating Opportunity: Strategies for Increasing Economic Self-Sufficiency of Older Americans	443	(8)
Gloria Whitman
Roger Vaughan
Arthur Boyd
The National Association of Older Worker Employment Services: Activities and Policies	451	(7)
Terri Lynch
Senior Careerists: Strategies for Using Their Skills	458	(9)
Barbara W. Plimpton
Index	467