Political Science 2230E Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: John Dewey, Affirmative Action
27 Dec 2018
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The civil service amendment act of 1908 was a reform that attempted to reduce patronage based appointment in public service sectors, replaced patronage with the merit principle: Patronage: the practice of making decisions about the distribution of public resources based on friendship, family, loyalty or in exchange for benefits of various sorts. Merit principle: hiring and promotion decisions are expected to be based on such qualifications as relevant experience, academic degrees, professional credentials and certification. Politics administration dichotomy - holds that elected politicans should make choices between competing values and interests, choices that would be embodied in the laws. The proper function of non-elected state officials was to implement these choices without regard for their personal views and preferences. Increasingly however, the inherent tension between the obligation of political neutrality imposed on public servants and their political right as citizens was viewed as a problem.
