Practice where a newly elected political party gives civil service jobs to supporters and cronies.
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Examples for "spoils system"
Examples for "spoils system"
1When Senator Lodge entered public life the flagrant spoils system was rampant.
2What effect has the merit plan had upon the spoils system?
3First, then, in what sense can the spoils system be called essentially American?
4They stood for anarchy, civil war, and the old spoils system.-Downhim then!
5The speaker skilfully selected the spoils system in diplomatic appointments.
1In this so-called democracy money can buy power, privilege and political patronage.
2The Act is also a licence for political patronage and corruption.
3Chinese developers also rely on political patronage, which can prove fickle.
4The dissenting MPs view Abadi's move as a return to the political patronage system.
5What cannot change is the system of political patronage itself.
1But if the PUK's patronage system begins to unwind, loyalties could shift.
2Like Overcast, Castro uses a patronage system to make its money.
3The dissenting MPs view Abadi's move as a return to the political patronage system.
4In some ways, Liberia struggles with the legacy of that patronage system even today.
5These elements included the advocates of the patronage system, the reformers and the president.
6The patronage system in Irish education is outdated and outmoded.
7Thus partisans of the patronage system have naturally condemned it.
8And this was where I got my first real taste of the patronage system.
9Mugabe continues to hang on to power through the political patronage system, McGee told reporters.
10With the statesman's vision, Lincoln recognized both the use and the abuse of the patronage system.
11The attitude of the exponents of the patronage system toward the reformers was one of undisguised contempt.
12On Feb. 9 he renewed a bid to dismantle the country's patronage system and root out corruption.
13In Khartoum, that is shaking up the patronage system that Bashir and his predecessors have used to keep allies onside.
14But when it lost power 12 years ago, it also lost a patronage system between regional party bosses and the cartels.
15But a shift to market reforms, while winning praise from Western governments, would undermine Putin's feudal patronage system and destabilize politics.
16Zimbabwean commercial farmer Dave Connolly has seen it all before: the intimidation, the threats, the patronage system, and the legal battles.
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