| The old spoils system was replaced by professionalism and academic excellence. |
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| Andrew Jackson invented the spoils system to reward supporters with government jobs. |
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| El Comandante used his Machiavellian bag of tricks to fuel a spoils system and political juggernaut that Venezuelans worshiped. |
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| The latter, in particular, fears disruption to business as usual and the spoils system. |
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| This activity, known as lobbying or government relations, was once the exclusive domain of the political spoils system. |
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| But even a member of the United States cabinet is not well served if this just becomes a spoils system. |
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| On the other hand, if it all goes wrong, he might turn out to be just one more erratic autocrat relying on nationalist rhetoric and the spoils system to stay in power. |
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| The rules aimed to replace the political spoils system with objective measures. |
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| Dawson saw the return of the Conservatives in 1911 as one of the darkest pages in the history of the spoils system in Canada. |
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| In any spoils system, as renowned historian Desmond Morton points out, what goes around comes around. |
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| The spoils system of appointments, however, remained essentially in place. |
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| This employment, like his earlier appointment to the custom house in Boston, was vulnerable to the politics of the spoils system. |
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| For instance, the low remuneration of civil servants and the spoils system prevailing in many countries may seriously hinder capacity development. |
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| In the absence of competition, the spoils system of patronage appointments meant that civil service jobs were generally not available to all Canadians. |
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| For most of the first fifty years after confederation, the Canadian civil service was staffed on the spoils system, with patronage, overstaffing and inefficiency as major features. |
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