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In the fall of 1980, the inaugural issue of the Review of Public Personnel Administration was published. This symposium celebrates the 30-year anniversary of ROPPA. The articles in the symposium look back and forward to take stock of the current state of the public human resource management (HRM) field. This introduction reviews publishing trends in the journal over the past 30 years, including the contributions of editors and authors, the subject matter of articles published in the journal, the most frequent contributors, and the Review of Public Personnel Administration's impact. The introduction concludes with highlights from the five articles appearing in this symposium and their focus on critical issues in the field, including a strategic research agenda for HRM, workforce diversity, performance-based pay, labor—management relations, and public HRM education.

Georgia's comprehensive reform of its civil service system in July 1996 removed merit system protections from all employees hired after that date and substantially altered the relationship between the state's central personnel agency and the line agencies and departments. This article introduces the symposium by briefly tracing the driving forces, rationale, and central features of Georgia's reform efforts. In 2000, Florida became the second state to substantially restructure its civil service system, removing merit system protections from a significant number of public employees. The interests and arguments supporting and opposing Florida's "Service First" initiative are identified together with a short analysis of its major legislative provisions and their implications. Reforms in both Georgia and Florida are designed to enhance managerial flexibility, but there are concerns that employee rights are diminished in the process.

Recent calls for public sector reform advocate reinvention,
deregulation, reengineering, outsourcing, and privatization
to address deficiencies in the classic bureaucratic model and
to improve government performance. Reform efforts that
seek to capitalize on the advantages offered by the three
sectors-public, private, and voluntary-include experiments
in public-private policy partnerships. Experience with coop-
erative undertakings between the state and for-profit or
third-sector service providers spans the last three decades.
This book examines the pros and cons of these public-private
policy partnerships, isolates the determinants of success or
failure across policy spheres, and identifies the circumstances
under which cross-sector partnering should be promoted or
avoided.