Note that much of US government at all levels is a civil service next to impossible to remove by political means, and I assume this is similarly true in most politically “stable” countries.
Pretty sensible. I believe people eventually concluded that this was terribly partisan and corrupt. Which it was. But the current alternative is a vested aristocracy with a perpetual right to rule.
Note that much of US government at all levels is a civil service next to impossible to remove by political means, and I assume this is similarly true in most politically “stable” countries.
Well, during the 19th century the US had a system whereby the entire civil service was replaced whenever the party in power changed.
Pretty sensible. I believe people eventually concluded that this was terribly partisan and corrupt. Which it was. But the current alternative is a vested aristocracy with a perpetual right to rule.