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States' Current Rules: Little Hatch Acts
Chart 1:
Civil Service Employees and Running for Office
Chart 2:
Civil Service Employees and Other Political Activities
Chart 3:
A Breakdown of the Other Political Activities
The
Hatch Act and Inflation.
Baird, Charles W. Volume 1, Number 4.
The article, "The
Hatch Act and Inflation," by Charles Baird takes
an original look at the relationships between
government finance and spending, federal employees,
and the nation's economy. Should the Hatch Act, which
has already survived numerous legal and political
(legislative) challenges, be repealed, Baird says,
the implications would reach beyond merely affecting
federal sector employment policy but would influence
the nation's economy and fiscal policies.
The Hatch Act: Should It Be Repealed
or Reformed?
Webster, John and Kasle, Jeffrey. Volume 9,
Number 1.
Examines the efficacy
of the 1939 Hatch Act's prohibition on government
workers' involvement in partisan political
activities. The act had originally been passed to
protect federal workers from coercion by their
superiors and to insure a politically neutral civil
service. The issue came to the fore again last
October when U.S. Representative William Clay (D-MO)
introduced a bill, H.R. 3400, that would allow
federal workers to run for office as well as work on
political campaigns. Thus, once again the question of
whether to repeal or reform the act has been raised.
The authors argue
that, whereas the original conditions and reasons
which prompted passage of the act have not changed
over the last fifty years, there is little reason for
repealing it. On the contrary, they maintain that its
aegis should be broadened to incorporate the
activities of public sector unions.
New Federal Employee Union Political
Activism: Freedom or Coercion?
Smith, B. Volume 4, Number 2.
Baker Smith, former
Assistant Secretary for Labor Relations at the
Department of Housing and Urban Development offers
his insight into new federal employee union political
activism.
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