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The British Royal Commission on the Civil Service

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Since the day when Queen Victoria gave her reluctant consent to allow her Government to introduce a form of pass examinations as a means of entrance to the public service, there has been at least one grand inquest each generation into the operation of the experiment thus timidly launched. The Playfair Commission (1874-75) looked skeptically upon the system of open competition inaugurated in 1870; the Ridley Commission (1886-90) reflected the growing confidence in merit and in the Upper Division; the MacDonnell Commission (1912-15) faced, without making commitments, the new organized service which had already made itself felt in the Post-Office, and which was destined in the brief era of “new world” psychology after the war to entrench itself firmly in the Whitley councils for the civil service.

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  • White, Leonard D., 1932. "The British Royal Commission on the Civil Service," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 26(2), pages 315-318, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:apsrev:v:26:y:1932:i:02:p:315-318_02
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