Pendleton Act reforms the US civil service

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• Political Order and Political Decay whole source · open book

  Prior to passage of the 1883 Pendleton Act and the spread of merit-based bureaucracy, American government was a cli-entelistic system in which public offices were allocated by the political parties on the basis of patronage.

  chapter: Chapter 31: Political Decay

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