POLI 1090 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Aarp, Spoils System, Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act
8 Apr 2018
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Bureaucracy and bureaucrats : the size of the federal service. Federal bureaucracy shrunk over the last 35 years. 1968: 3 million civilians, 3. 6 million military. 2008: 2. 7 million civilians, 1. 4 million military: the civil service. This is call patronage: on july 2, 1881, president gar eld was assassinated by a man upset the he was to given a patronage position, pendleton civil service reform act, 1883. Positions must be obtained by passing an exam. Civil servants cannot be red without cause. 2000: the us paid out billion in contracts. Promoting the public welfare : iron triangles. The poor generally have no interest group. The judiciary has no in uence over either the sword or the purse, no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society, and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither force nor will, but merely judgment. alexander hamilton.
