The American spoils system is vast, deep, and society-scale, but it is a weak shadow of its past now. Comparable things in the developing world are simply called "corruption" or "nepotism". They are definitely not legitimized by design as here.
I'm trusting Fukuyama's distinctions here. He made a good case that Jacksonian spoils was a genuine leap over the Roman model. In part because it played out in the context of urbanization.
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Yeah, the Roman spoils system was mostly precious metals extraction, see: Caesar as governor of Spain with the silver. Separate context, it woulda been interesting if Cermak hadn't been assassinated in Miami '33. First pan-national city political coalition
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I think that makes the Jacksonian V 2.0 much more powerful. There was a lot more to hand out...even if society was a lot more rudimentary at that point.
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It sounds like he's also applying Mead's sense of the Jacksonian being a 'war party,' vs. the Roman system was much more mutually beneficial within the oligarch system regardless of Optimates v. Populares
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