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

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 ...

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

One Republican who voted against the measure said efforts to reduce existing federal workers’ pension benefits will fail if ...

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

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 ...

President Donald Trump said Friday he was pushing through a massive overhaul of the civil service system, giving him power to ... they would represent the biggest change to laws governing political ...

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 ...

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 ...