The latter, in particular, fears disruption to business as usual and the spoils system.
There is a lot of evidence that a bureaucratic spoils system has supplanted the political spoils system.
In truth, the OWS protestors are only skirmishing over the distribution of the spoils system they claim to abhor.
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Similarly, the popular vote was considered markedly less partisan than the spoils system: the lesser, by far, of two evils.
They accepted the spoils system when it suited them and rejected every aspect of the state's authority when it did not.
Andrew Jackson invented the spoils system to reward supporters with government jobs.
But the old spoils system, run by the KDP and the Talabanis' Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), may be starting to break down.
They are a bastion of government not as a spoils system (which it seems to be becoming) but of the public good, for all.
With thuggish violence and the customary spoils system for his family and military cronies, the superannuated revolutionary toyed with, and stifled, an earlier democratic spring.
Rather than grapple with the detail of the country's changing political institutions, he describes how entrenched political elites have kept control by manipulating a spoils system.
They have scammed money from taxpayers in other nations to prop up a venal and corrupt system of patronage and spoils.
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They despise it for the cosy relations it had with East European dictators during the cold war and deride its heavily regulated economy and its system of Proporz, whereby its two main parties share the spoils of patronage, from ambassadors to secretaries.
So far this has proved fairly easy, thanks to a system he has devised to share out jobs, influence and the other spoils of office.
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