TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tummala,Krishna K
TI  - Politics of preference : India, United States, and South Africa 
T2  - Public administration and public policy 
SN  - 9781466503892
AV  - JQ249.M54 T86 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Boca Raton
PB  - CRC Press
KW  - Civil service
KW  - Minority employment
KW  - India
KW  - United States
KW  - South Africa
KW  - Minorities
KW  - Employment
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Public administration
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Business & Economics / Government & Business
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Political Science / Public Affairs & Administration
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - ""Public Service" has two different aspects to it: political and administrative. Political representation deals with how people's representatives are elected. It is the second area which is of greater interest in that social assets are distributed and administered among the population. As public policies are administered by a myriad of administrators, it should be of interest in how the administrative personnel are selected. As minorities, based on whatever criteria- be they linguistic, religious, ethnic, tribal or racial- have problems everywhere, their representation in public service is considered important. More so, when there had been public policies which historically and deliberately discriminated against certain sections of the community. In other words, how to ensure a "representative bureaucracy"?"--
ER  -