spoils system

practice where a newly elected political party gives civil service jobs to supporters and cronies
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spoils system

Summary

spoils system ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,469 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • spoils system's subclass of is recorded as political activity[2].
  • spoils system's subclass of is recorded as political system[3].
  • spoils system's subclass of is recorded as cronyism[4].
  • spoils system's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00575642[5].
  • spoils system's opposite of is recorded as merit system[6].
  • spoils system's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0fgcg[7].
  • spoils system's facet of is recorded as civil service[8].
  • spoils system's described by source is recorded as The Encyclopedia Americana[9].
  • spoils system's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia[10].
  • spoils system's described by source is recorded as Meyer’s Universum, Zwanzigster Band[11].
  • spoils system's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/spoils-system[12].
  • spoils system's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/1234brmv[13].
  • spoils system's NE.se ID is recorded as spoils-system[14].
  • spoils system's Treccani ID is recorded as spoils-system[15].
  • spoils system's Quora topic ID is recorded as Spoils-System[16].
  • spoils system's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as spoils-system[17].
  • spoils system's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["Concept", "SpoilsSystem::w5p46"][18].
  • spoils system's Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID is recorded as spoils-system[19].
  • spoils system's Treccani's Dizionario di Storia ID is recorded as spoils-system[20].
  • spoils system's Hrvatska enciklopedija ID is recorded as 57476[21].
  • spoils system's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 30126[22].

Why It Matters

spoils system ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,469 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
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  5. [6] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
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  15. [16] . Quora. wikidata.org.
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  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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