How Presidential Politicization Wrecked the Spoils System

Again within the Nineties whereas working for the Clinton administration’s U.S. Workplace of Personnel Administration, I wrote articles in outstanding scholarly journals with titles like "Pondering the Unthinkable in Public Administration: A Case for Spoils within the Federal Paperwork," and related commentaries together with one in Washington Month-to-month. Regardless that I used to be (and most years stay) Republican, I might have handed President Clinton the keys to the bureaucratic kingdom anticipating he would do extra good than hurt; anyway, my group might all the time undo the unhealthy after the subsequent election. Within the 2020s, the Trump-Biden…