Following the assassination of President James Garfield, Congress passed the Pendleton Act of 1883, which ended the spoils system in the US government bureaucracy, replacing it with the merit system. The merit system Group of answer choices a. has successfully removed all political considerations from the implementation and administration of federal government policy. b. doesn’t apply to so-called, “street-level bureaucrats,” that regularly interact with the public as a regular part of their job. c. doesn’t guarantee that all federal civil servants exercise “neutral competence” in doing their jobs from day to day. d. All of the above statements ar

Following the assassination of President James Garfield, Congress passed the Pendleton Act of 1883, which ended the spoils system in the US government bureaucracy, replacing it with the merit system. The merit system Group of answer choices a. has successfully removed all political considerations from the implementation and administration of federal government policy. b. doesn’t apply to so-called, “street-level bureaucrats,” that regularly interact with the public as a regular part of their job. c. doesn’t guarantee that all federal civil servants exercise “neutral competence” in doing their jobs from day to day. d. All of the above statements ar