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Discussion: Suppose you have been put in charge of your state's bureaucracy, would you develop a system that is entirely a "spoils system" or a "merit system," or some combination of both? Explain your reasons.

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The solution provides a short advising in discussing a state administrative system especially in the adaption of either a spoils or a merit system.

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I would have the merit system. Government and government jobs should be for those qualified to do the work. If one assumes that Weber was correct, then bureaucracy is the system where people are hired who are competent ...

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