What is Civil service?
A '''civil servant''' or '''public servant''' is an [[employee]] who works in the civilian career [[public sector]] for a [[government]] [[Ministry (government department)|department]] or [[agency]]. Many consider the study of civil service to be a part of the field of [[public administration]]. Who is a civil servant and who is not is different in different countries. Workers in non-departmental public bodies, (called [[Quango]]s in some countries) may also be called civil servants in context with [[statistics]]. All people that may be called civil servants together form a nation's '''Civil Service''' or '''Public Service'''. == References == * Bodde, D. ''[http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/chinawh/web/s10/ideas.pdf Chinese Ideas in the West]'' * Brownlow, Louis, Charles E. Merriam, and Luther Gulick, ''Report of the President's Committee on Administrative Management.'' (1937) U.S. Government Printing Office. * P. N. Mathur. ''The Civil Service of India, 1731-1894: a study of the history, evolution and demand for reform'' (1977) * Kevin Theakston. ''The Civil Service Since 1945'' (Institute of Contemporary British History, 1995) * Ari Hoogenboom. ''Outlawing the Spoils: A History of the Civil Service Reform Movement, 1865-1883.'' (1961) * Schiesl, Martin. ''The Politics of Efficiency: Municipal Administration and Reform in America, 1880-1920.'' (1977) * Van Riper, Paul. ''History of the United States Civil Service'' (1958). * White, Leonard D., ''Introduction to the Study of Public Administration.'' (1955) * Leonard D. White, Charles H. Bland, Walter R. Sharp, and Fritz Morstein Marx; ''Civil Service Abroad, Great Britain, Canada, France, Germany'' [https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=10192814 (1935) online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120627144637/http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=10192814 |date=2012-06-27 }} {{stub}} [[Category:Employment]] [[Category:Government-related organizations]]