The civil service is a collective term for the sector of government composed mainly of career personnel who are hired rather than elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership. A civil service official, also called a civil servant or public employee, is a person employed in the public sector by a government department or agency; civil servants work at any level of government, and in a healthy civil service they answer to the government itself rather than to a political party.
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The concept arose in China and modern civil service developed in Britain in the 18th century.
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The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil service personnel hired rather than elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership.
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The civil service, also referred to in some countries as the public service (and not the same as the public sector), is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil service personnel hired rather than elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership.
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The civil service, also referred to in some countries as the public service (and not the same as the public sector), is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil service personnel hired rather than elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership.
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