I: Public Personnel Administration; 1: History and Politics; 1: The Triumph of Techniques Over Purpose; 2: The Neutrality of the Public Service; 3: Civil Service Versus Merit; 4: Public Personnel; 2: Institutions, Functions, and Process; 5: Understanding Attitudes Toward Public Employment; 6: Politics and Merit; 7: Merit Pay in the Public Sector; 8: The Dangers of Participative Management; 9: The Americans with Disabilities Act and the Workplace; 10: Drug Testing in Public Agencies; 3: Equal Employment Opportunity, Affirmative Action, and Representative Bureaucracy; 11: A Mini-Symposium; 12: A Mini-Symposium; 13: Minorities and Women in State and Local Government; 14: A Symposium; 15: A Symposium; 16: Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Backward; 17: Equal Pay for Comparable Work; 4: Civil Service Reform; 18: A Symposium on Civil Service Reform; 19: The Politics of Civil Service Reform; 20: The Winter Commission; 21: Reinventing the Federal Civil Service; 5: Legal Developments; 22: The Public Employment Relationship and the Supreme Court in the 1980s; 23: Due Process and Public Personnel Management; 24: Curbing Patronage Without Paperasserie; 25: Drug Testing in the Public Sector; 26: The Legal Evolution of Sexual Harassment; II: Public Sector Labor Relations; 6: History and Politics; 27: Whitleyism and Collective Bargaining; 28: Collective Negotiations in the Public Service; 29: Bilateralism and the Merit Principle; 30: Labor Unions and Collective Bargaining in Government Agencies; 31: Public Sector Labor Relations; 7: Collective Bargaining, Impasse Resolution, and Strikes; 32: Collective Bargaining in Public Employment; 33: A Union View of Collective Bargaining in the Public Service; 34: The New Dimensions of the Strike Question; 35: Public Sector Collective Bargaining; 36: Public Employee Unionization and Collective Bargaining in the Southeast; 8: Employee Participation and Labor Management Cooperation; 37: A New Frontier for Employee-Management Cooperation in Government; 38: Union-Management Partnership in the U.S. Department of Labor; 39: Labor-Management Relations and Participative Decision Making; 9: Critical Developments in Public Sector Labor Relations; 40: Last Hired, First Fired and Public Employee Layoffs; 41: Bumping, Blocking, and Bargaining; 42: What Public Employee Relation Boards and the Courts are Deciding