codified classifications and prerequisite experience or competitive testing.
The civil service system is an employment system.
The civil service system is a system of hiring and promoting employees based upon the merit system. The merit system is the opposite of the spoils system.
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Civil Service
The Chinese civilisation was the first to have a civil service where joining it was open to anyone who could pass the entrance examination. As such it was the first modern civil service system.
Civil service system
A civil service system ensures that appointments and promotions are based on merit and abilities. Appointments are not made by political patronage.
The central feature of the civil service system is merit-based, non-political employment and promotion
The Spoils System.
civil service system
Under the civil service system, federal workers are hired based on their testable skills for the job, and cannot be fired for belong to the wrong party.
to reform the civil service system