University of Richmond history professor Eric Yellin talked about the spoils system that existed before the formation of the modern day civil service. This discussion was part of the American ...

William Marcy of New York. The senator’s boast became a platitude and provided a label for the politics of the era: the spoils system. The spoils system propagated like a pernicious weed.

Trump wants the federal government to be more immediately responsive to his political aims, and there have been comparisons to the spoils system put in place by his presidential hero, Andrew Jackson.

“I‘ve been warning for some time that, if Trump is re-elected, he’ll work to politicize the civil service and set America on a path back to the 19th century, when the spoils system made Feds ...

The “spoils system” of the 19th century filled the government with party loyalists and increased corruption across the country, until a popular political movement created appetite for reform.

Those of us who are history-minded have immediately thought of this as threatening a return to the “spoils system” of the 19th century, which was more or less ended by enactment of the ...

"To the victor belong the spoils." For decades in the 1800s, that phrase was more than a slogan; it was the official hiring ...

Such was the spoils system, which ruled American politics from roughly 1828 until 1883. Under the scheme, jobs in the federal government were handed out based on loyalty to the president ...

It’s the classic story of a Democratic politician given power on the basis of a spoils system. Newsom was appointed to his first position, San Francisco’s parking and traffic commissioner ...

Critics, including nonpartisan analysts, fear Trump’s proposal to replace thousands of civil servants with his loyalists would resurrect something like the 19th century “spoils” system ...

The U.S. is witnessing in these last couple of weeks with the firings of civil servants is an attempt to return to the old spoils system begun under Andrew Jackson in which workers were hired and ...