A Louisiana amendment could remove jobs from civil service protections and limit terms for Civil Service Commission members.

A contested effort to change the constitution to give state lawmakers more power over Louisiana’s civil service system is ...

However, this patronage system created extensive dysfunction ... contributed to the U.S. government finally taking on civil ...

Without the threat of bankruptcy, like in the private sector and no easy matrices of performance, a civil service stuffed with patronage appointees becomes very hard to reform for every effort ...

This changed with the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883 ... while retaining some kind of guardrails against pure patronage. The challenge for Democrats would be to acknowledge that ...

A host of lawsuits and legislation seeks to prevent the Trump administration from removing job protections for some members of the career civil service.

Died: November 18, 1886. Unexpectedly for a man whose early political career depended on political patronage, Arthur signed the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act into law. Advancement in ...

Civil service employment was also a reward for political patronage. The rapid expansion of employment ... law enforcement officers did not have vehicles; and so forth. Reform goals and strategies In ...

Morris during a hearing Wednesday said the effort to "reform civil service" is aimed at creating ... against being fired and is meant to limit patronage and political retaliation.