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During the Gilded Age, politics were riddled with corruption as presidents awarded government positions to political supporters through the patronage or spoils system.
May 15, 2013 · The empirical analysis strongly supports the hypotheses, showing that patronage appointments vary with the partisan composition of government, the allocation of portfolios and junior ministers, as well as the importance of corporations.
- Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik
- 2014
Mar 3, 2015 · Patronage is treated as a discrete phenomenon through which political, bureaucratic, and wider social behaviour may be analysed and explained. As such, it is commonly seen as an obstacle to (or as a stopgap for) effective administration; as a feature that is in some respects compatible with (and may aid) democracy; and as behaviour that is ...
- Rupert Hodder
- rupert.hodder@hitsz.edu.cn
- 2015
Under a patronage system, the proba- bility an entrenched incumbent maintains control over the subsequent elections is more than 30 percentage points higher than for a non-entrenched party.
Mar 6, 2017 · Why do some politicians deliver clientelistic goods to their electoral constituencies, and why do some voters demand them? This article focuses on the historical origins of trust in states and shows that they have a lasting impact on contemporary patterns of patronage.
- Lenka Bustikova, Cristina Corduneanu-Huci
- 2017
SUMMARY AND PURPOSE OF LEGISLATION The Preventing a Patronage System Act would protect civil service rights and prevent federal employees from losing statutory and job protections. The bill would prevent any position in the competitive service from being reclassified to an excepted service schedule created after September 30, 2020.
Dec 21, 2008 · This paper examines how patronage has been used and understood in American political science and public administration. The author calls for a reexamination of the concept based on developments found in the field of anthropology.
