patronage

Examples of patronage in the following topics:

• Jacksonian Democrats: 1824–1860

  • Also known as the spoils system, patronage was the policy of placing political supporters into appointed offices.
  • Patronage was theorized to be good because it would encourage political participation by the common man and because it would make a politician more accountable for poor government service by his appointees.

• Chief Legislator

  • He can attempt to influence Congress through promises of patronage and favors.

• Bureaucratic Reform

  • An unintended result was political parties' increasing reliance on funding from business, since they could no longer depend on patronage hopefuls.

• Termination

  • A crucial result was the shift of the parties to reliance on funding from business, since they could no longer depend on patronage hopefuls.

• Political Parties

  • Typically in countries with less of an established democratic tradition, it is possible the dominant party will remain in power by using patronage and sometimes through voting fraud.

• Debate over the Presidency and the Judiciary

  • Madison believed that in the American states, this direct link between state executives and judges was a source of corruption through patronage and thought the link had to be severed between the two, thus creating the "third branch" of the judiciary which had been without any direct precedent before this point.

• The Elements of Ad Hoc Rational Action

  • Yet the US Post Office was a principal location of patronage jobs in those days.