FROM SPOILS TO MERIT
o Created the OPM (Office of Personnel Management) to provide guidance to agencies of the executive branch
- “To the victor belong the spoils” (1828)
- President rewarding supporters with jobs based on service, not on merit
- Garfield’s assassination by a disappointed office-seeker (1881)
- Creation of the Pendleton Act (1883)
- Eliminated the spoils system (patronage); created merit system.,exam-based merit system would be used to fill government jobs
- Hatch Act (1939)
- Political activities of bureaucrats are limited
- Civil Service Reform Act (1978)
o Created the OPM (Office of Personnel Management) to provide guidance to agencies of the executive branch