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The Pendleton Act: Time For A Change, Isabel Waller
The Pendleton Act: Time For A Change, Isabel Waller
Tenor of Our Times
This paper identifies causes of the passage of the Pendleton Act of 1883, which ushered in American civil service reform by changing the spoils system to a merit system.