<span>Patronage an appointment to a political office usually as a reward for helping a candidate get elected.
Patronage
-Giving government jobs to people who had helped a candidate get elected.
-also known as the spoils system.
spoils system
Also known as patronage, which was the giving of government jobs to people who helped a candidate get elected. However this became a problem in the government because many people who were given these jobs weren't qualified for them, and sometimes used their job positions for their own personal gain. Seeing that this was becoming a major issue in the government reforms began to press for the elimination of patronage, and believed that jobs in civil service/ government administration should go to the most qualified people and not based off their political views or who they were recommended by</span>
Ross Perot ran for president in 1992 and 1996 as a third-party candidate. <span>Incumbent Republican President </span>George H. W. Bush<span>, Democratic Arkansas Governor </span>Bill Clinton<span>, and independent Texas businessman </span>Ross Perot were the three major candidates going for presidency.
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D) economic and political theories developed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
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