Summaries ofkey reportsgiven at recent Wilson Center meetings

"The State and America's Higher Civil Service."
Paper Hugh Heclo, presented at a Wilson Center conference sponsored by the Wilson Center's American Societv and Politics Program, October 23-24, 1982.

Michael J. Lacey, moderator In Western Europe and Japan, power- ful senior civil servants are a perma- nent feature of government. The United States, however, has no com- parable "higher civil service." Washington do...