The creation of a modern, centralized, merit-based bureaucracy capable of exercising jurisdiction ov
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- Political Order and Political Decay whole source · open book
The creation of a modern, centralized, merit-based bureaucracy capable of exercising jurisdiction over the whole territory of the country began only in the late 1880s, and the number of classified civil servants did not reach 80 percent until the time of the New Deal more than fifty years later.
chapter: Chapter 32: A State of Courts and Parties