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VOCABULARY: 👩🏽💼Civil Service 👨🏽💼
Civil Servants are work in bureaucracy, based on merit, cannot be fired for political reasons. /1
Civil Servants are work in bureaucracy, based on merit, cannot be fired for political reasons. /1
Pros of the civil service: administration and enforcement of the laws is ideally neutral and competent /2
We created the Civil Service cuz of corruption and gross incompetence of "spoils system" in 1880s (& job seeker killed Prez Garfield)/3
Downside of civil service: President, as head of exec branch, has less control over administration of the laws than title implies/4
Find this interesting? Check out the classic book on the bureaucracy: amazon.com/Bureaucracy-Go…
Apologies for the typo in the original post. #Twittereditbutton
Civil servants WORK in the bureaucracy, based on merit, cannot be fired for political reasons. #Twittereditbutton
