Oh, dude, in "The Lady or the Tiger," people are punished or rewarded based on whether they choose the door with the lady or the tiger behind it. If they choose the lady, they get to marry her, but if they choose the tiger, well, let's just say it's not a happy ending. It's like a twisted game show, but with higher stakes and no prize money.
Before the influence by Europe, the Cherokee's belief system consisted of (what is defined as) a Pantheism "Good is rewarded, bad is punished" system. After being exposed to "Christians" (European Monotheism) Native Americans rejected the system, so the system was changed to a monism or Unitarian type system so it was more widely accepted among them (however in doing so they reverted their own religion to Pantheism).
Supporters of a political party were rewarded with jobs.
I really don't know what you mean by this.There's an association between Buddhism and the caste system, but:The caste system existed before Buddhism, and it was condemned by the Buddha himself, so we can't really blame it on Buddhism specifically even though some people later used the Buddhist doctrine of reincarnation to justify the caste system, saying that high caste people were "obviously" being rewarded for living righeous previous lives, low caste people were "obviously" either being punished for unrighteousness in previous lives or being rewarded for being righteous animals in previous lives. Either way, people "deserved what they got", so the caste system was "obviously" working just fine.
Democracy is a government made up of representatives chosen by the people themselves. Meritocracy is the ideology that people get what they deserve; it is a system where people are rewarded based on ability.
The spoils system was objected to to the experience levels of the people rewarded with the jobs. Some people knew nothing about the government jobs the received.
The spoils system derived from the Jackson Democratic party's victory in the 1828 election, for which they were rewarded
The encomienda system
party workers must be rewarded with political office after a successful campaign.
Encomienda
This system is where those who help you will be rewarded. For example, you help someone get elected and you will get a comfy job working for them.
It is called "The Spoils System." The phrase was coined after President Andrew Jackson began replacing ggovernment officials with people of his choice basing it on the military theory that "To the victor belong the spoils." "Spoils" refers to the spoils of war, i.e. everything that had belonged to the losers of a war that the winner wanted.
Richard Nixon was never punished for his crimes