We will not know the extent or the success of President Donald Trump’s purge of the federal bureaucracy for some time. There ...

It’s an imperfect comparison, as I learned from Daniel Feller, a professor emeritus of history at the University of Tennessee, who has written extensively about Jackson and the spoils system of ...

FELLER: The rise of the spoils system during and after Jackson’s presidency – it wasn’t all Jackson’s doing – was attendant upon the rise of political partisanship in the United States ...

Donald Trump is waging war on the civil service in the name of efficiency. But Washington created the modern civil service to ...

Now, it's important to distinguish his belief that "to the victor belongs the spoils" in the imperialist context from a ...

The U.S. is witnessing in these last couple of weeks with the firings of civil servants is an attempt to return to the old spoils system begun under Andrew Jackson in which workers were hired and ...