A Study On The United States Civil Service Reform Of The Progressive Era

As a product of the Western democracy,Civil Service System is the foundation of public administration rules of modern society,its impact on today's society increasingly important.As a relatively perfect Civil Service management system,American Civil Service system shows us a basic guideline about the development of American history with its unique features.The United States completed the second industrial revolution in Mid-19 th century,productivity has been greatly improved,and through the baptism of the Civil War,the institutional obstacles which hinder the development of American have been abolished,although with rapid economic development,mean while,it has produced a series of social problems.The development of industrialization and urbanization have made the lagging nature of the American political system become more and more obvious.In response to this situation,the United States has carried out civil government reform to adapt to the development of society.Late 19 th and early 20 th century,the United States is at a major turning point in the transition from the old era,the history of this period has also been given its distinctive character,the historians of this period called the “Progressive Era.” And against the background of its characteristics of the times,this time period the United States civil service also has transitional characteristics,with a connecting role in the history of the United States Civil Service System.The study traces the history of the American civil service system,through the specific study of “Progressive Era”,the study put the civil service system into the trend of times.In this period,American transform from agricultural society to industrial society,the freedom of capitalist development to monopoly capitalism stage.The rise of the impact of scientific management movement in business and industry modified the United States Civil Service management system,it made the civil service system in this period has scientific and efficiency-oriented features.However,through analysis historical development characteristics of American Progressive Era and the problem of civil service system,we can get the conclusion that the necessityof the reform of civil service system.Finally,this study describe the reform of the civil service system,forecast the future development trend of the US Civil Service system,get the conclusion that the reform of American Civil Service not only ensure the stability of the US government policy implementation,but also promote the modernization of the US government's management system,later,with the increase of civil service independence and the particularity of this profession caused the power expansion of them.