During that era, nearly every commander in chiefs’ administration was committed to the preservation of the spoils system — the tradition of sweeping political patronage. The cronyism of the ...

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.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was caught on a hot mic the other day giving his assessment of Donald Trump’s threat to turn Canada into the 51st state. I don't think Trudeau is given to ...

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.

This plan would reproduce the spoils system’s worst corruption, grift, and inefficiencies. The spoils system is the colloquial term for the period from roughly 1828 to 1883 when political ...

Americans in 2016, like patriots in 1776 and Machiavelli in 16th-century Italy, are fed up with a political spoils system. The twists and turns of the 2016 presidential race should not have been a ...

Federal jobs were doled out as party patronage. They called it the “spoils system” because to the victor (of the election) went the spoils (all those jobs). Plenty of people knew the system ...

In many ways, Trump is seeking to return the country to the spoils system that existed in the 19th century. Pioneered by President Andrew Jackson, that system awarded tens of thousands of civil ...

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 ...